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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Yalta Conference | USA, GB, USSR agree eastern Europe will have free elections and Poland is shifted westward |
| Potsdam Conference | President Truman demands immediate, free elections in eastern Europe |
| containment | postwar US foreign policy that sought to limit the spread of communism |
| Marshall Plan | program for Europe that included $13 billion in direct monetary aid |
| Berlin | city that was blockaded by the Soviets in 1948; Truman responded with an airlift |
| NATO | western military alliance in Cold War |
| Warsaw Pact | eastern (communist) military alliance in Cold War |
| European Coal and Steel Community (1952) | first example of economic union in Europe |
| European Economic Community (Common Market/1957) | reduced European tariffs on all goods in member states and allowed for freer movement of labor |
| Josip Broz (Tito) | communist leader of Yugoslavia who maintained independence from the Soviet Union |
| Hungary | rebelled against Soviet rule in 1956 |
| Prague Spring | rebellion against Soviet rule in Czechoslovakia in 1968 |
| Alexander Dubcek | Czech leader of Prague Spring |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | Soviet policy during re-Stalinization (after 1968) that vowed to crush any rebellions against communist rule in eastern Europe |
| International Monetary Fund | countries contribute; other countries can borrow from it in emergencies |
| economic miracle | term for western Europe's recovery after World War II |
| de-Stalinization | period of liberal reforms in the Soviet Union from 1956-1963 under Khrushchev |
| perestroika | re-structuring of the Soviet economy under Gorbachev |
| glasnost | openess, or freedom of speech, under Gorbachev |
| John Paul II | Polish pope who supported Solidarity and opposed communism |
| Solidarity | Polish labor union of dock workers; provided leadership to post-communism Poland |
| Treaty of Maastricht | created European citizenship and started process of European monetary union |
| Brexit | nationalist reaction to European Union in Great Britain; resulted in Great Britain leaving the EU |