Ch 28 Terms

• Cold War 


  Rivalry between the soviet union and the United States that divided much of Europe into a soviet aligned communist bloc and a U.S aligned capitalist bloc between 1945 and 1989
• Proxy Wars - Wars where one country fights on behalf of another country to achieve its own goals without direct involvement by the other country.
• Propaganda - The spreading of ideas or information (often false) in order to promote a political cause or point of view.
• Iron Curtain - A term used during the Cold war to describe the division between Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union, which were separated from Western Europe by an ideological barrier.
• Cold War (1945-1991)


  A war of words and threats between the United States and the Soviet Union that was marked primarily by a political and economic, rather than military, struggle between the two nations.
• Displaced Persons


  Postwar refugees, including 13 million Germans, former Nazi prisoners and forced laborers, and orphaned children.
• Truman Doctrine


  1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey
• Marshall Plan (1947)


  A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe on condition they wouldn't go communist. Helped contain communism in Europe and helped our economy as Europe bought from US businesses to rebuild.
• (COMECON)

  An economic organization of Communist states meant to help rebuild East Bloc countries under Soviet auspices.
• NATO

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
• Warsaw Pact (1955)


  An alliance between Russia and Eastern communist countries against Western capitalist countries
• Economic Miracle


  Term contemporaries used to describe rapid economic growth, often based on the consumer sector, in post-World War II western Europe.
• Christian Democrats


  Center-right political parties that rose to power in western Europe after the Second World War.
• Common Market


  a group of countries that acts as a single market, without trade barriers between member countries
• Socialist realism


  usually seen in Russia and China, this artistic style glorifies the state and the nobility of the worker
• De-Stalinization


  social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor
• Decolonization


  The collapse of colonial empires. Between 1947 and 1962, practically all former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence.
• Nonalignment


  political and diplomatic independence from both Cold War powers
• Neocolonialism


  Also called economic imperialism, this is the domination of newly independent countries by foreign business interests that causes colonial-style economies to continue, which often caused monoculture (a country only producing one main export like sugar, oil, etc).
• guest worker programs


  Government-run programs in western Europe designed to recruit labor for the booming postwar economy.
• Postcolonialism migration


  the postwar movement of people from former colonies into Europe.