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SS Chapter 27
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| superpower | country with both military and political influence |
| Truman Doctrine | U.S. policy of support against communsim |
| Marshall Plan | U.S. effort to rebuild war-torn Europe another name for European Recovery Program |
| Berlin Air Lift | tactic used to overcome a Soviet blockade |
| Warsaw Pact | military Alliance of Soviet allies |
| The city of Berlin? | divided itself into 4 zones |
| policy of containment | to stop the spread of communism the U.S. adopted a policy toward the Soviet Union |
| Why did the Soviet Unions Council for Mutual Economic Assistance fail? | The Soviets could not afford to provide large amounts of foreign aid |
| The U.S. and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should do what? | Hold free elections to determine their futures |
| What was the Truman Doctrine a response to in 1946? | British aid to Greece |
| de-Stalinization | Krushchev's policy of undoing his predecessor's more ruthless policies |
| Heavy Industry | the manufacture of machines and equipment for factories and mines |
| Sputnik I | first space satillite |
| Tito | Yugoslav leader who resisted Stalin's control |
| Dubcek | Czechoslovakian reform leader and party secretary |
| After Stalin's death what did the Soviet Union make clear it would not do? | Allow Eastern European satellites to become independent of control |
| How did Khrushchev respond to Nagy's declaration of Hungarian Independence? | Attacking Budapest |
| What did a protest campaign led by Czechoslovakian writers lead to? | resignation of Novotny |
| When did the "Prague Spring" of Alexander Dubcek forestall? | When the soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia |
| Dubcek wanted to create what? | Socialism with a human face |
| welfare state | nation in which the government provides services and a minimum living standard to all |
| Real wages | the actual purchasing power of income |
| chancellor | title of the German head of state |
| Bloc | group of nations with a common purpose |
| segregation | separation, for example, by race |
| What did Canada's postwar growth financed by U.S. investments led Canadians to fear? | American economic domination |
| Writings of reforms such as de Beauvoir created new interest in what? | feminism |
| Student protests were reactions against what? | The Vietnam War, university policies and administrations, and alienation of the individual from society |
| Baby Boom | caused by post war birthrates |
| Increases in workers wages, increased credit, and built-up demand for post war goods led to the creation of what? | consumer society |
| What did Nikita Krushchev place in Cuba in 1962? | A Soviet Naval Base |
| Who wrote "One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich"? | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn |
| What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated? | 1968 |
| Who wrote the Second Sex? | Simone de Beauvoir |
| What was the significance of ICBM's in the 1950s? | they were the first space satillites |
| Federal Republic of Germany | West Germany |
| arms race | both countries build up their armies and weapons |
| Nikita Krushchev | emerged as new leader of the Soviet Union in 1955 |
| Imre Nagy | Hungarian leader, declared Hungary a free nation on November 1, 1956 |
| Charles de Gaulle | war hero of France, who helped establish the Fourth Republic government |
| John F. Kennedy | assassinated on November 22, 1963 |
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