UNIT 9:CONTEMPORARY EUROPE&COLD WAR Flashcards
(34 cards)
Marshall Plan
federal aid for rebuilding western Europe to contain communism
Effects of the Marshall Plan
1.Rapid economic recovery in Western Europe
2.Increased importance of consumerism
Big Three
Soviet Union, US and Great Britain
United Nations
abolished League of Nations and is established for world peace/negotiating diplomacy
Truman Doctrine
containment of communism
Truman said any state that felt the threat of communism will receive US aid
How was Cold War waged
1.Propaganda
2.Covert Actions(CIA)
3.Arms race
4.Proxy Wars
Vietnam ,Korea
Korean War
North (Communist) vs South (Democratic)
Soviet Union vs US
Vietnam war
North (Communist) vs South (Democratic)
Soviet Union vs US
Soviet Invasion in Afghanistan
Led to US deploying troops and gave aid
NATO
alliance system
World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) , World Trade Organization
to prevent another Great Depression
US
Comecon
Warsaw Pact
Soviet’s response to US’s NATO and IMF
Berlin Wall
Because of the Soviet Unions poor organizations, East Berlins move towards the West and caused a Wall to be built to stop it
Khruschev
de-Stalinization
more civil liberties
fails with the Cuban Missile Crsis
Gorbachev
glasnost and perestroika
introduced openness and limited free market economics leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union
Yugoslavia Genoicide
in the name of protecting the Serbian minority, Milosevic sent Serbian troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina to carry out the ethnic cleansing against Muslims
NATO intervened
Britain’s welfare state
low cost or no cost universities, subsidized healthcare benefits, unemployment insurance
Liberal Party created a cradle to grave
Problem?
Two recessions hit and the economy hits stagnation bc of the high taxes that came it
Gorbachev’s reforms
Perestroika
-an effort to restructure the soviet economy by introducing some limited free market elements
Glasnost
-a word that means openness
Chernylbol Disaster
The effects of Gorbachev’s reforms
the Solidarity political group to stop the Soviet Union after being faced with such openness from Gorbachev
This led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the democratic govt established in Soviet Bloc countries
New opportunities for Women
With the postwar economic boom came a high demand for labor
the economy of western Europe was slowly shifting away from being primarily dependent on male dominated industries like coal mining or shipbuilding and more toward a knowledge economy in which people worked primarily with their brains
many younger women started to go to college in droves after the war and that prepared them well for work in the knowledge economy
second wave feminism
whereas the main push during the first wave was to secure the right to vote, the second wave focused on societal issues and inequalities women faced including education ,marriage laws and professional careers
divorce law
birth control pill
vitro fertilization
Margaret Thatcher
slashed the labor party (wanted welfare state)
Brexit-left the EU bc the high taxes, immigration
why decolonization after WWII?
when the war was over, major imperial powers no longer had the wealth or military power to quell with the rising demands for independence around the world
Ghandi
no violence movement for Indian independence
Non Aligned Movement
