C. 28 def-wor (C.War)

Question 1

The rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States that divided much of Europe into a Soviet-aligned Communist bloc and a U.S.-aligned capitalist bloc between 1945 and 1989.

Answer 1

Cold War

Question 2

Postwar refugees, including 13 million Germans, former Nazi prisoners and forced laborers, and orphaned children.

Answer 2

displaced persons

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Truman Doctrine

Question 4

American plan for providing economic aid to western Europe to help it rebuild.

Answer 4

Marshall Plan

Question 5

An economic organization of Communist states meant to help rebuild East Bloc countries under Soviet auspices.

Answer 5

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)

Question 6

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an anti-Soviet military alliance of Western governments.

Answer 6

NATO

Question 7

Soviet-backed military alliance of East Bloc Communist countries in Europe.

Answer 7

Warsaw Pact

Question 8

Term contemporaries used to describe rapid economic growth, often based on the consumer sector, in post–World War II western Europe.

Answer 8

economic miracle

Question 9

Center-right political parties that rose to power in western Europe after the Second World War.

Answer 9

Christian Democrats

Question 10

The European Economic Community, created by six western and central European countries in the West Bloc in 1957 as part of a larger search for European unity.

Answer 10

Common Market

Question 11

Artistic movement that followed the dictates of Communist ideals, enforced by state control in the Soviet Union and East Bloc countries in the 1950s and 1960s.

Answer 11

Socialist Realism

Question 12

The liberalization of the post-Stalin Soviet Union led by reformer Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 12

de-Stalinization

Question 13

The postwar 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 U.S. and Soviet ideals

Answer 13

decolonization

Question 14

Policy of postcolonial governments to remain neutral in the Cold War and play both the United States and the Soviet Union for what they could get

Answer 14

nonalignment

Question 15

A postcolonial system that perpetuates Western economic exploitation in former colonial territories.

Answer 15

neocolonialism

Question 16

The postwar movement of people from former colonies and the developing world into Europe.

Answer 16

postcolonial migration

Question 17

Government-run programs in western Europe designed to recruit labor for the booming postwar economy.

Answer 17

guest worker programs