A Frigid Beginning
This conflict began after WWII between the U.S. and the USSR
What is the Cold War?
These Cold War conflicts were fought in Asia, not Europe Cold War
What are the Korean & Vietnam Wars?
This region fell under Soviet influence after WWII
What is Eastern Europe?
Government programs that provided healthcare, education, and aid
What are welfare states?
European empires declined after WWII largely because of this
What is decolonization?
This fear of the spread of communism shaped U.S. foreign policy
What is containment?
Wars fought in other countries by superpowers are called these
What are proxy wars?
This country experienced ethnic violence due to nationalism
What is Yugoslavia?
A result of welfare states on people’s lives
What is improved living standards / social security?
Movement of people into Europe that caused social tension
What is migration?
The U.S. economic plan to rebuild Europe and stop communism
What is the Marshall Plan?
The USSR kept control of Eastern Europe by installing these governments
What are satellite states?
Major symbol of Cold War division falling in 1989
What is the Berlin Wall?
This movement fought for women’s equality in jobs and politics
What is feminism?
A program bringing foreign laborers to Europe
What are guest worker programs?
Two opposing economic systems that caused postwar tension
What are capitalism and communism?
This military alliance united the U.S. and Western Europe and the U.S.S.R's attempt at retailiation
What is NATO and Warsaw Pact?
Primary weakness of communist economies
What is inefficiency?
One difference between first-wave and second-wave feminism
What is first-wave focused on voting; second-wave on social/economic equality?
An organization formed to promote unity and cooperation
What is the European Union?
This term describes why the Cold War never became direct war
What is a “limited” conflict (avoiding direct fighting)?
Threat of total destruction preventing war
What is mutual destruction?
These reforms helped lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union
What are glasnost and perestroika?
High taxation/government expansion caused this
What is conservative backlash against welfare programs?
Cultural result of globalization
What is pop culture