Modern Europe (ch 30)

Question 0

Willy Brandt

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West German chancellor. Sought peace with East Germany. Went to Poland in December 1970. Laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier and another monument commemorating the armed uprising of Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto against Nazi armies after which the ghetto was destroyed and the survivors were sent to the gas chambers

Question 1

Clement Attlee

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Socialist Labor Party under him moved toward establishment of a “welfare state.” Formed government of England after Churchill. Nationalized industries

Question 2

Brezhnev Doctrine

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Soviet Union and it’s allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need

Question 3

Brinkmanship

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International relations involving the deliberate creation of a risk of war to apply pressure on the other party

Question 4

COMECON

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The economic association organized by the communist states

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Containment

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Attempt to contain communism in areas already occupied by the Red Army as indicated in the Truman Doctrine

Question 6

Council of Europe

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Brought about by the Marshall Plan in 1948 as an attempt to evolve into a Parliament yet became only a multinational debating society

Question 7

Charles De Gaulle

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Leader of Free French General that resigned in 1946 after reestablishing the free, democratic Fourth Republic

Question 8

de-Stalinization

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Liberalization of the Soviet Union

Question 9

Anthony Eden

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Opposed Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement toward Hitler. Became prime minister in 1955. Resigned in 1957

Question 10

Ludwig Erhard

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Minister of the economy. Bet on the free economy while maintaining the extensive social welfare network inherited from the Hitler era

Question 11

Euratom

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European Atomic Energy Community established by the treaty of Rome to regulate and research nuclear energy merged with the EEC

Question 12

European Coal and Steel Community

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International organization to control and integrate all European coal and steel production. Consisted of West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France. Number 1 goal to be so close together economically that war against them impossible. “The six”

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European Economic Community

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Caused by the Marshall Plan

Question 14

Hungarian Revolution (1956)

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Led by students and workers. Installed Liberal Communist Imre Nagy. Forced soviet soldiers to leave and promised free election. Renounced was crushed by the Soviet Union

Question 15

“Inner Six”

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Members of the EEC

Question 16

Iron Curtain Speech

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March 1946. Winston Churchill at Fulton College Missouri. Said an “ iron curtain” had fallen across the continent

Question 17

Nikita Khrushchev

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Russian premier after Stalin. Led de-Stalinization of Russia. A reformer who argued for major innovations

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Marshall Plan

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US Secretary of State Gearge C Marshall urged Americans to offer economic aid. Refused by Stalin

Question 19

Imre Nagy

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Liberal communist reformer installed as Chief by the people of Budapest

Question 20

NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed in 1949 by US anti-Soviet Military alliance of Western Governments

Question 21

“Peaceful Coexistence”

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Krushchev’s foreign policy. Peaceful coexistence with communism was possible

Question 22

Schumann Plan

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Called for special international organization to control and integrate all European coal and steel production

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Treaty of Rome

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Six nations of Coal and Steel Community signed to create EEC

Question 24

Warsaw Pact

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Counter by Stalin to tighten his hold on satellites

Question 25

Perestroika

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Economic restructuring by Gorbachev

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Glasnost

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A new founding openness of government and media

Question 27

Restalinization

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Soviet Union started a period of stagnation. Saw de-Stalinization as a dangerous threat