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Post-War Europe
Post War Europe to the Present 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A Churchill speech talking about the division between Communist and Capitalist Europe | Iron Curtain Speech |
| Communist governments in these countries in the 1950s were undermined by the Eisenhower administration. | Turkey and Iran |
| Writer of the Long Telegram and formulator of the concept of containment | George Kennan |
| Policy of stalling the spread of Communism | Containment |
| Policy formulated to justify US involvement in quelling Communist uprisings in Greece and Turkey | Truman Doctrine |
| Plan formulated to reconstruct WWII-ravaged Europe | Marshall Plan |
| The 1948 Soviet-assisted coup in this country led to the establishment of the Marshall Plan | Czechoslovakia |
| Yugoslavian Socialist President and leader of the Non-Alligned Movement | Josip Tito |
| A blockade of this city after WWII prompted an allied airlift to bring in food | Berlin |
| A military alliance of Western powers created after WWII | NATO |
| A military alliance of the Soviets with Eastern European powers | Warsaw Pact |
| A Communist uprising in this nation was led by Mao Zedong | China |
| Postwar British prime minister and architect of the British welfare system | Clement Atlee |
| Postwar president of the French fifth republic | Charles de Gaulle |
| First Chancellor the German Federal Republic in the wake of WWII. | Konrad Adenauer |
| A series of reforms of the Catholic Church during the 1960s began by Pope John XXIII | Vatican II |
| A strong political party in postwar Germany that sought to apply Christian principles to statecraft | Christian Democrats |
| The division of colonial empires following WWII. | Decolonization |
| The general term given to the intervention of developed countries in the affairs of developing countries | Neocolonialism |
| Postwar Soviet leader who denounced Stalin and was later impeached over his handling of the Cuban missle crisis. | Nikita Khrushchev |
| The process of eliminating Stalin's cult of personality and limiting the gulag system that had existed under Stalin's dictatorship | De-Stalinization |
| Liberalization of the Soviet Union that occurred under Khrushchev | The Thaw |
| Infamous Soviet satellite. | Sputnik |
| Author of Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| Author who critiqued Russia's prison system in "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| Soviet scientist who helped develop the hydrogen bomb, later turned dissident | Andrei Sakharov |
| An unsuccesful rebellion in this country against Communist rule occured in 1956 | Hungary |
| The downing of an American spy plane over the Soviet Union, putting somewhat of a damper on US/Soviet relations | U-2 Incidents |
| A wall. In a city. Ronald Reagan may or may not have torn it down with his bare hands | Berlin Wall |
| A 1962 diplomatic crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| German chancellor following Adenauer. | Willie Brandt |
| Brandt's policy of strengthening relationships with the Soviet Union while maintaing friendship with the West | Ostpolitik |
| Spanish fasicst dictator | Francisco Franco |
| Treaty prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons in all locations except underground | Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963) |
| Soviet General Secretary who followed Khruschev and led the Soviet Union into the Soviet-Afghan War | Leonid Brezhnev |
| A treaty designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons | Non-Proliferation treaty |
| Talks designed to limit nuclear proliferation | SALT I (and SALT II) |
| Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union designed to limit the devices used to defend areas against nuclear missiles. | ABM Treaty |
| Czechoslovakian leader who briefly attempted to reform the Czechoslovakian Communist Party | Alexander Dubcek |
| Late 60s-era reforms under Dubcek, halted by the Soviet Union | Prague Spring |
| Soviet doctrine that argued that any turn towards capitalism in soviet countries was a threat to all soviet countries | Brezhnev Doctrine |
| The British empire in India | Raj |
| India's first prime minister | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Leading advocate for Indian independence | Mahatma Gandhi |
| An example of Gandhi's "Satyagraha" method of protest, a mass act of 1930 civil disobedience in India | Dandi Salt March |
| India's last pre-independence constitution | Government of India Act 1935 |
| Indian Muslim who led to the establishment of Pakistan | Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
| Major Indian political party | Indian National Congress |
| Last viceroy of India | Lord Mountbatten |
| Region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River | Palestine |
| A certain pronouncement calling for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine | Balfour Declaration |
| The first civil war between Israel and its Arab neighbors | Israeli War of Independence |
| Dictator of Iran ousted in the 1979 revolution | Shah |
| Ideology calling for the unification of all peoples and countries in the Arab world | Pan-Arabism |
| This country fought against French rule in the 1960s | Algeria |
| French nationals born in Algeria | Pied-noirs |
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