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THIS U.S. general proposed economic aid to rebuild Europe.
Who is George Marshall?
THIS city was divided between communist and capitalist zones after WWII.
What is Berlin?
THIS organization integrated European coal and steel industries.
What is the ECSC?
THIS conference in 1945 determined the postwar division of Germany into occupation zones.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
THIS conflict between the U.S. and USSR shaped postwar Europe.
What is the Cold War?
THIS British leader warned of an “Iron Curtain.”
Who is Winston Churchill?
THIS canal crisis in 1956 marked the decline of British imperial power.
What is the Suez Crisis?
THIS military alliance united Western powers in 1949.
What is NATO?
THIS 1989 event symbolized the end of division in Germany.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
THIS system describes Soviet-style centralized economic control.
What is a command economy?
THIS Soviet leader introduced Glasnost and Perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
THIS Polish city was the center of the Solidarity movement.
What is Gdańsk?
THIS military alliance united the Soviet bloc in 1955.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
THIS 1956 uprising in Eastern Europe was crushed by Soviet troops.
What is the Hungarian Revolution?
THIS system blends capitalism with welfare protections.
What is social democracy?
THIS Polish leader headed the Solidarity movement.
Who is Lech Wałęsa?
THIS German state was part of the Soviet-controlled Eastern bloc.
What is East Germany (or the GDR)?
THIS 1957 treaty created the European Economic Community.
What is the Treaty of Rome?
THIS month and year saw mass student and worker protests in France.
What is May 1968?
THIS ideology promoted African independence and unity.
What is Pan-Africanism?
THIS Soviet leader denounced Stalin in the “Secret Speech.”
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
THIS country was partitioned into two new nation-states in 1947.
What is India?
THIS agreement created the European Union in 1992.
What is the Maastricht Treaty?
THIS process saw European empires collapse after WWII.
What is decolonization?
THIS infamous post-1989 claim argued that liberal democracy was the final stage of history.
What is Francis Fukuyama's the “End of History”?