European History AP - ch 30 Modern Europe
Vocab for class at Niceville HS. The list is chapter 30.
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- Imre Nagy
- liberal communist reformer installed as Chief by the people of Budapest.
- Perestroika
- Economic restrucuring of Gorbachev
- European Economic Community
- caused by the Marshall Plan
- Ludwig Erhard
- Minister of economy, bet on the free enconomy while maintaining the extensive social welfare network inherited from the Hitler era.
- Brinkmanship
- International relations involving the deliberate creation of a risk of war to apply pressure on the other party.
- Hungarian Revolution
- 1956. Led by students and workers, installed Liberal Communist Imre Nagy. Forces soviet soldiers to leave and promised free election, renounced Hungary's military alliance with Moscow. Revolution was crushed by the Soviet Union.
- "Inner Six"
- members of the EEC
- Iron Curtain Speech
- March 1946 Winston Churchill at Fulton College Missouri; said an "iron curtain" had fallen across the Continent.
- Clement Attlee
- Under him, Socialist Labor Party moved toward establishment of a "Welfare State"; formed government of England after Churchill; nationalized industries.
- COMECON
- The economic association organized by the communist states.
- European Coal and Steel Community
- International organization to control and intergrate 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."
- Euatom
- European Atomic Energy Community established by the treaty of Rome to regulate and research nuclear energy merged with the EEC.
- Brezhnev Doctrine
- Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need.
- Willy Brandt
- 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 with the ghetto was destroyed and survivors were sent to the gas chambers.
- "peaceful coexistence"
- Krushev's foreign policy; peaceful coexistence with ciommunism was possible.
- de-Stalinization
- Liberalization of the Soviet Union.
- Schuman Plan
- called for special international organization to control and integrate all European coal and steel production
- Warsaw Pact
- Created by Stalin to counter NATO and to tighten his hold on satellites.
- Charles De Gaulle
- Leader of French General that resigned in 1946 after re-establishing the free; democratic Fourth Republic.
- Marshall Plan
- US Secretary of State George C Marshall urged Americans to offer economic aide-this was the Marshall Plan. Refused by Stalin.
- NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization-formed in 1949 by US anti-Soviet Military Alliance of Western Governments.
- Glasnost
- a newfound openness of government and media.
- Anthony Eden
- Opposed Chamberlain's policy of appeasement towards Hitler. Became Prime Minister in 1955, resigned in 1957.
- Containment
- Attept to contain communism in areas already occupied by the Red Army as indicated in the Truman Doctrine.
- Treaty of Rome
- Six nations of Coal and Steel Community signed to creat EEC.
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Russian premier after Stalin. Led de-Stalinization of Russia. A reformer who argued for major innovations.
- re-Stalinization
- Soviet Union started a period of stagnation. Saw de-Stalinization as a dangerous threat.
- Council of Europe
- Brought about by the Marshall Plan in 1948 as an attempt to evolve into a Parliament yet became only a multinational debating society.