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Cold war

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That I worry between the Soviet Union and the United States that divided much of Europe into a Soviet aligned communist block and a US aligned capitalist block between 1945 and 1989

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Displaced persons

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Post war refugees including 13 million Germans, former Nazi prisoners and forced laborers, and orphaned children

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Truman doctrine

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America’s policy gear to containing communism to those countries already under Soviet control

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Marshall plan

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American plan for providing economic aid to Western Europe to help it rebuild

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Council for mutual economic assistance

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An economic organization of communist states meant to help rebuild east block countries under Soviet auspices

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Nato

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The North Atlantic treaty organization, and anti-Soviet military alliance of Western governments

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Warsaw pact

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Soviet backed military alliance of East block communist countries in Europe

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Economic miracle

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Term contemporaries used to describe rapid economic growth often based on the consumer sector, in post-World war II Western Europe

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Christian Democrats

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Center right political parties that rose to power in Western Europe after the second world war

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Common market

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The European economic community created by six western and central European countries in the west block in 1957 as part of a larger search for European unity

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Socialist realism

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I just did moving that followed the dictates of communist ideals, enforced by state control in the Soviet Union and East block countries in the 1950s and 1960s

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De-stalinization

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The liberalization of the postal and Soviet Union led by reformer Nikita Khrushchev

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Decolonization

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The post-war reversal of Europe’s overseas expansion caused by the rising demand of the colonized peoples themselves, the declining power of European nations, and the freedoms promised by US and Soviet ideals

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Non-alignment

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Policy of post-colonial governments to remain neutral in the Cold war and play both the United States and the Soviet Union for what they could get

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Neocolonialism

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A post colonial system that perpetuates Western economic exploitation in former colonial territories

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Guest worker programs

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Governments run programs in Western Europe designed to recruit labor for the booming postwar economy

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Post colonial migration

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The post-war movement of people from former colonies and did the developing world into Europe