Chapter 30
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- restalinization
- Soviet Union started a period of stagnation. Saw de-Stalinization as a dangerous threat.
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Russian premier after Stalin. Led de-Stalinization of Russia. A reformer who argued for major innovations.
- Brezhnev Doctrine
- Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need.
- COMECON
- The economic association organized by the communist states
- de-Stalinization
- Liberalization of the Soviet Union.
- "Inner Six"
- members of the EEC.
- Clement Attlee
- Socialist Labor Party under him moved toward establishment of a "Welfare State"; formed government of England after Churchill; nationalized industries.
- Iron Curtain Speech
- March 1946 Winston Churchill at Fulton College Missouri; said an "iron curtain" had fallen across the Continent.
- "peaceful coexistence"
- Krushev's foreign policy; peaceful coexistence with communism was possible.
- Warsaw Pact
- Created by Stalin to counter NATO and to tighten his hold on satellites.
- Euratom
- European Atomic Energy Community established by the treaty of Rome to regulate and research nuclear energy merged with the EEC.
- European Coal and Steel Community
- 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".
- Containment
- Attempt to contain communism in areas already occupied by the Red Army as indicated in the Truman Doctrine.
- 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.
- Imre Nagy
- liberal communist reformer installed as Chief by the people of Budapest.
- NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization- formed in 1949 by U.S. anti-Soviet Military alliance of Western Governments.
- Ludwig Erhard
- Minister of the economy, bet on the free economy while maintaining the extensive social welfare network inherited from the Hitler era.
- European Economic Community
- caused by the Marshall Plan.
- Perestroika
- Economic restructuring by Gorbachev
- Schuman Plan
- called for special international organization to control and integrate all European coal and steal production.
- Marshall Plan
- U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall urged Americans to offer economic aide- this was the Marshall Plan. Refused by Stalin.
- Charles De Gaulle
- Leader of Free French General that resigned in 1946 after re-establishing the free, democratic Fourth Republic.
- Hungarian Revolution
- 1956. Led by students and workers, installed Liberal Communist Imre Nagy. Forced soviet soldiers to leave and promised free election, renounced Hungary's military alliance with Moscow. Revolution was crushed by the Soviet Union.
- Brinkmanship
- International relations involving the deliberate creation of a risk of war to apply pressure on the other party.
- 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 which the ghetto was destroyed and survivors were sent to the gas chambers.
- 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.
- Treaty of Rome
- Six nations of Coal and Steal Community signed to create EEC.