The European Union
The two nations who at one time had been at odds that agreed to combine their coal and steel production in 1951.
Who are France and West- Germany?
The Communist rule had not prepared Eastern European people for what type of government?
What is democracy?
Officials make decisions based on the state's wishes rather than on people's needs in this type of government.
What is Communism?
Two western European countries coordinated their steel and coal production in order to tie them economically and prevent future wars.
What is France and Germany?
It was at the end of this war that Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
What is World War I?
A group of six countries that signed an agreement in 1956 to tie their countries economically to prevent future wars.
What is the European Economic Community? (Or Common Market)
Having the government control the economy and workforce made it hard for citizens to do what?
What is starting and running their own private businesses?
the leader of Soviet Union
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Another name for the European Economic Community.
What is the Common Market?
After the first war, people were hungry to hear about new leadership and ideas, such as the political idea that stresses national strength instead of Personal strength.
What is fascism?
Allowed manufactured goods and products to be moved freely among the countries.
What is a free trade zone?
Under Communist economies, factories were outdated, and could not compete with western countries, so this happened to them...
What are they closed down?
Polish shipyard worker's union that demanded government changes like free elections.
What was Solidarity?
A single currency, or type of money used across Europe in member nations.
What is the Euro?
Nazis used a type of negative campaigning- in the form of posters, pamphlets, speeches, and movies to claim that Germans were superior to all other peoples. especially Jewish People.
What is propaganda?
Formed in 1992 from the nations who were in the Common Market, this is an economic and political partnership among these nations.
What is the European Union?
Free, market-based economies of the democratic western countries forced eastern Europeans to learn how to do what two new economic things?
What is learn how to start businesses and deal with international markets?
A symbol of the Cold War
What is the Berlin Wall?
The government had control of the ownership of farms, businesses and factory production in this economy.
What is the communist economy?
Fighting and bombing during the war left many European cities in ruins, poverty and hunger were widespread, Governments that came to power after the war were facing severe challenges.
What are three effects of war in Europe?
By 2002, the nations of the European Union had established a single currency, called this...
What is the Euro?
What had been a widespread governmental issue throughout communist Europe and remained a problem in many countries?
What is government corruption?
Free elections, the right to protest, the freedom to make changes in government are all parts of this kind of government that the Eastern European countries wanted.
What is Democracy?
This plan offered American money to help European countries rebuild their economies. The Soviet Union pressured countries under its control to reject this aid.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Nazis murdered 6 million Jews and 5 million other ethnic groups in concentration camps as a result of this horrible act.
What is the Holocaust?