Ch. 23

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

rivalry between the Us and USSR

Question 2

displaced persons

Answer 2

post war refugees, 13 million Germans, former Nazis, orphaned children, and forced laborers

Question 3

COMECON

Answer 3

organization of communist states to rebuild east bloc.

Question 4

Truman Doctrine

Answer 4

policy containing communism from new countries

Question 5

NATO

Answer 5

North antlantic treaty organization, anti-soviet

Question 6

Christian Democrats

Answer 6

center-right political party, powerful after WW2

Question 7

Marshall Plan

Answer 7

U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II

Question 8

Warsaw Pact

Answer 8

collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe

Question 9

Common Market

Answer 9

European Economic Community

Question 10

Economic Miracle

Answer 10

term to describe rapid economic growth

Question 11

Socialist Realism

Answer 11

artistic movement that followed communist ideals

Question 12

decolonization

Answer 12

process of a state leaving a former colony, making it independent

Question 13

Post colonial migration

Answer 13

post war movement from colonies

Question 14

destalinization

Answer 14

a series of political changes in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin

Question 15

non-alignment

Answer 15

policy of post colonial gov. to pay the US and soviets for what they could get

Question 16

neocolonialism

Answer 16

a post colonial system exploiting colonial territories

Question 17

guest worker programs

Answer 17

foreign workers can temporarily reside and work in a host country