Chap 28 Flashcards
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
An economic organization of Communist states meant to help rebuild East Bloc countries under Soviet auspices.
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an anti-Soviet military alliance of Western governments.
Warsaw Pact
The response of the Soviets to NATO. it was a soviet-backed military alliance of East Bloc Communist countries in Europe.
Economic Miracle
A term that contemporaries used to describe rapid economic growth, often based on the consumer sector, in post-World War II western Europe.
Christian Democrats
Center-right political parties that rose to power in western Europe after the Second World War.
Common Market
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.
Socialist Realism
The artistic movement that followed the dictates of Communist ideals, enforced by state control in the Soviet Union and East Block countries in the 1950s and 1960s.
de-Stalinization
The liberalization of the post-Stalin Soviet Union led by reformer Nikita Khrushchev.
Decolonization
The postwar reversal of Europe’s overseas expansion caused by the rising demand of the colonized peoples themselves, the declining power of the European nations, and the freedoms promised by the US and Soviet ideals.
Nonalignment
The 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.
Neocolonialism
A postcolonial system that perpetuates Western economic exploitation in former colonial territories.
Guest Worker Programs
Government run programs in western designed to recruit labor for the booming postwar economy.
Postcolonial Migration
The postwar movement of people from former colonies and the developing world into Europe.
