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Terms and Important stuff from Unit 9 (Cold War & Contemporary Europe)

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show US giving money to any country threatened by communism so they stay democratic  
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show Economic aid from the US offered to everyone in Europe (even Soviets)  
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(Cold War) COMECON   show
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(Cold War) Buffer States   show
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(Cold War) Potsdam Conference   show
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(Cold War) Iron Curtain   show
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(Cold War) Containment   show
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show - US tried to get rid of Fidel Castro - He knew this so asked Soviets to plant secret missiles in Cuba - Height of Cold War but deescalates after US promises to leave Cuba alone, so Soviets leave  
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show - Berlin surrendered to soviets in 1945 - Berlin gets divided into many territories - Allies merge areas - Blockade of Berlin in 1948 resulted US to deliver supplies to Berlin for 11 months  
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(Cold War) NATO   show
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(Cold War) Warsaw Pact   show
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(Cold War) Nikita Khrushchev   show
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show - Process done by Khrushchev to change the way Stalin ran USSR - Censorship lifted - Reducing power of secret police - Less labor camps  
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(Cold War) Hungarian Rising (1956)   show
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(Cold War) Berlin Wall   show
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show - Stood in front of Berlin wall to say speech - Supports West Berlin & West Europe by saying he's one of them  
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(Cold War) Prague Spring   show
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show US & Soviets' relationship was referred to as this since they were negotiating & there weren't any major conflicts  
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(Cold War) Ronald Reagan   show
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(Cold War) Mikhail Gorbachev   show
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show Restructuralization of the USSR; let a bit of capitalism in  
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(Cold War) Glasnot   show
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show USSR Satellite states had to fall because they were bankrupt, Berlin Wall included  
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(Cold War) Soviet Union Collapse (1991)   show
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(Cont. Eur.) Cradle to Grave   show
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(Cont. Eur.) National Insurance Act (1946)   show
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(Cont. Eur.) National Health Service Act (1946)   show
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show -British controlled area after Ottoman collapse - Brits give some of it to Jews (States of Israel)  
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(Cont. Eur.) Balfour Declaration (1917)   show
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(Cont. Eur.) Israel (1948)   show
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(Cont. Eur.) Refugees   show
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(Cont. Eur.) Yugoslavia   show
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show - Serbian army clashes with Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army - Ethnic cleansing again - NATO intervenes to stop fighting & protect Albanians  
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(Cont. Eur.) Serbians   show
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(Cont. Eur.) Bosnian Muslims   show
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show - Military clashes between Serbia & Croatia - Happens most in Bosnia & Kosovo  
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show Srebenica Massacre (mass killings of Bosnian Muslims) considered international war crime from UN  
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show - Most important person regarding feminism in Europe - Wrote "The Second Sex" - Book about how society is created & dominated by males; females have to judge themselves against males & are second class citizens of society  
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(Cont. Eur.) Margaret Thatcher   show
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(Cont. Eur.) European Coal & Steal Community   show
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(Cont. Eur.) European Community   show
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(Cont. Eur.) European Union   show
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(Cont. Eur.) EURO   show
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(Cont. Eur.) Brexit   show
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show Waves of migrant workers came to Europe in the 1950s, resulting in anti-immigrant agitation, & nationalistic political parties  
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(Cont. Eur.) French National Front   show
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show Similar to French National Front but are even more extreme & cause lots of violence  
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(Cont. Eur.) Birth Control Pills   show
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show Sparked ethical & religious issues  
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show "I Love Lucy" popular in Europe & Asia  
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(Cont. Eur.) Green Parties   show
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show - Wrote "Ulysses" in 1922 - Invented grammar structure, words, etc. - New & challenging, changing everything in the English language  
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(Cont. Eur.) Bauhaus   show
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(Cont. Eur.) Destruction of Guernica (1937)   show
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