UNIT 11 TERMS
Superpowers
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Molotov Plan
George Kennan
“Containment”
West German Zone
East German Zone
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Airlift
Eastern Bloc
Soviet Bloc
Communist Bloc
Iron Curtain
NATO
COMECON
Korean War
38th Parallel
Mao Zedong
President Eisenhower
CENTO and SEATO
Nikita Khrushchev
Warsaw Pact
Sputnik
Space Race
ICBMs
West Berlin-“Western Island”
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
Vietnam War
“Domino Theory”
Ho Chi Minh
Lyndon B. Johnson
De-Colonization
African National Congress (ANC)
Partition of Palestine
Arab-Israeli Conflicts
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Partition of India
Stalinization
Gulags
De-Stalinization
KGB
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Dr. Zhivago
Imry Nagy
Hungarian Uprising
Josip Tito
“Prague Spring”
Vaclav Havel
Alexander Dubcek
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
“The tanks won” pg. 819
Charles de Gaulle
Gaullism/Gaullist
Fourth Republic
Fifth Republic
Welfare State
Konrad Adenauer
Ludwig Erhard
Clement Attlee
National Insurance Act
National Health Service Act
Suez Canal Crisis
Christian Democrats
BENELUX Countries
European Coal and Steel Company (ECSC)
European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM)
European Economic Community (EEC)
Common Market
“Consumer Society”
“Baby Boom”
Feminist Movement 1960s
Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism
“Permissive Society”
ABMS
Helsinki Agreements (Accords)
Détente
“The Evil Empire”
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)/Star Wars
Mikhail Gorbachev
First and Second Gulf War
New World Order
Leonid Brezhnev
“No experimentation”
Yuri Andropov
Konstantin Chernenko
Party Central Committee
Politburo
Glastnost
Perestroika
Demokratizatsiya
Pravda
Stagnation
Chernobyl
August 1991 Coup
Boris Yeltsin
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Vladimir Putin
Dmitry Medvedev
Fall of Communism 1989
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Vaclav Havel (again)
The “Velvet Revolution”
Nicolae Ceausescu
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Erich Honecker
Stasi
German Reunification
Slobadan Milosevic
“Ethnic Cleansing”
Kosovo
European Community (EC)
European Union (EU)
Maastricht Treaty
Euro
Willy Brandt
Ostpolitik
Helmut Kohl
Conservative Party
Labour Party
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcherism
“Iron Lady”
Falkland Wars
Tony Blair
Francois Mitterrand
Jacques Chirac
Eurocommunism
OPEC
“Supply-side economics”
Munich Olympic Games
IRA
Al-Queda
“Guest Workers”
Green Parties
Abstractionism
Postmodernism
Abstract Expressionism
“Theatre of the Absurd”
Vatican II
Pope John Paul II