chapter 29 vocab

Question 1

displaced persons

Answer 1

postwar refugees, including 13 million germans, former nazi prisoners and forced laborers, and orphaned children

Question 2

truman doctrine

Answer 2

america’s policy geared to containing communism to those countries already under soviet control

Question 3

marshall plan

Answer 3

american plan for providing economic aid to western europe to help it rebuild

Question 4

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)

Answer 4

an economic organization of communist states meant to help rebuild eastern europe under soviet auspices

Question 5

NATO

Answer 5

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, anti-soviet military alliance of western governments

Question 6

Warsaw Pact

Answer 6

soviet-backed military alliance of eastern european nations

Question 7

Christian Democrats

Answer 7

center right winged political parties that rose to power in western europe after WWII

Question 8

Common Market

Answer 8

the European Economic Community, created by 6 western european nations in 1957 as part of a larger search for european unity

Question 9

de-stalinization

Answer 9

the liberalization of the post-stalin soviet union led by refomer nikita krushchev

Question 10

decolonization

Answer 10

the postwar reversal of europe’s overseas expansion caused by the rising demand of the colonized people themselves, the declining power of european nations, and the freedoms promised by US and Soviet Ideals

Question 11

nonalignment

Answer 11

policy of postcolonial governments to remain neutral in the cold war and play both the US and the Soviet union for what they could get

Question 12

guest worker programs

Answer 12

government run programs in western europe designed to recruit labor for the booming postwar economy

Question 13

postcolonial migration

Answer 13

the postwar movement of people from former colonies and the developing world into europe