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superpowers
countries whose military power is combinded with political influences
Truman Doctrine
stated that the US would proved money to contries threatend by communitst expansion
Marshal Plan
Provedes money for Europe to rebuild after war
COMECON
soviet's version of the Marshal Plan to help satellite states
George Kennan
argued for a policy of containment (plan to keep communist from explanding)
Solution to the Blockade of Berlin
Berlin Airlift
Federal Republic of Germany
West-Germany (Democratic)
German Democratic Republic
East Germany (Communist)
Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb
1949
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Korean War
an attempt by the communist North Korea to take over democtratic South Korea
SEATO
South East Asia Treaty Organization
CEATO
The Central Treaty Organization
Sputnik 1
the first human-made satellite
Nikita Khmshchev
trie to take advantage of American concern over missels to solve the problemin West Berlin
Because they were providing free services at home..
Britian had to let countries of the British Empire have their indepence, so they were no longer a world power
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn about life in forced-labor camps
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Polich first secretary
Imre Nagy
Hungarian leader who declared hungary a free nation and made free election
Antonin Novatny
"Little Stalin"
Dubcek
first secretary of the communist party
"Prague Spring"
a period of happiness that broke out after Dubcek esablished reforms
Charles de Gaullie
leader of France
Kontad Adenauer
chancellor of West Germany
"economic miracle"
West Germany being prosperous under Adenauer
Ludwig Erhard
minister of finances in West Germany
Willy Brandt
mayor of West Berlin
Wellfare State
in which the gov. takes responsibility for providing citizens with services
EEC
Euopen Economic Community; common market
Presidents that reienforeced the New Deal
Truman
Kennedy
Johnson
Eisenhower
real wages
the actual purchasing of income
McCarthy
created the "Red Scare"
JFKs Assasination
November 22, 1963
most significant national issue
civil rights
Earl Warren
ruled "separte education facilities are inherently unequal"
consumer society
a society preoccupide with buying goods
womens liberation movement
feminism
Civil RIghts Act of 1964
put an end to segregation in the work place and public places
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