Chapter 28: Cold War

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

Rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States that divided much of Europe into a Soviet-aligned capitalist bloc between 1945 and 1989.

Question 2

COMECON

Answer 2

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, and economic organization of Communist states meant to help rebuild East Bloc countries under Soviet auspices.

(Reverse of Marshall plan, did promise freedoms but not very good, doesn’t last long)

Question 3

Common Market

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Containment

Answer 4

Keep Communism contained, don’t let it spread

Question 5

Decolonization

Answer 5

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 U.S. and Soviet ideals.

Question 6

Christian Democrats

Answer 6

Center-right political parties that rose to power in Western Europe after WWII.

Question 7

Destalinization

Answer 7

The liberalization of the post-Stalin Soviet Union led by reformer Nikita Khrushchev. Maybe Stalin actually was harsh…

Question 8

Displaced Persons

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Economic Miracle

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Guest Worker Program

Answer 10

Government-run in Western Europe designed to recruit labor for the booming post-war economy.

Question 11

Iron Curtain

Answer 11

Sockets took stuff for themselves and blocked everyone else. They cut it off and wanted it for themselves.

Ask about in class

Question 12

Marshall Plan

Answer 12

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

Question 13

NATO

Answer 13

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

(Friends of U.S. funded in response to Berlin crisis)

Question 14

Nonalignment

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Post Colonial Migration

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Socialist Realism

Answer 16

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

(Artists had to conform with Communist ideals or else..)

Question 17

Truman Doctrine

Answer 17

America’s policy geared to containing communism to Jose countries already under Soviet control, no spreading of Communism to other places.

More general

Question 18

Warsaw Pact

Answer 18

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