Postwar Conditions
What is western Europe.
Soviet-backed military alliance of East Bloc Communist countries in Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact.
American foreign policy strategy to stop the spread of Communism.
What is Containment.
The only Eastern Bloc country that responded to the prodemocracy movement of 1989 with bloody repression
What is Romania.
The mixing of ethnic styles in daily life and in cultural works such as film, music, art, and literature.
What is multiculturalism.
American plan for providing economic aid to western Europe to help it rebuild.
What is the Marshall Plan.
Gorbachev's popular campaign for openness in government and the media.
What is glasnost.
Center-right political parties that rose to power in western Europe after the Second World War.
Who were the Christian Democrats.
The progressive relaxation of Cold War tensions that emerged in the early 1970s.
What is detente.
The primary reason for a decline in birthrates during the 21st century.
What is more women in the work place.
Police of postcolonial governments to remain neutral in the Cold War.
What is nonalignment.
This Soviet premier promoted de-Stalinization.
Who is Khrushchev.
The European Economic Community, created by six western and central European countries in 1957 to promote European unity.
What is the Common Market.
Independent Polish trade union that worked for workers rights and political reform throughout the 1980s.
What is Solidarity.
This Russian leader has been in some position of power since 2000.
Who is Vladimir Putin.
The postwar movement of people from former colonies and the developing world into Europe.
What is postcolonial migration.
This premier held that the Soviet Union had the right to intervene in any East Bloc country to preserve Communism.
Who is Brezhnev.
1960s counterculture movement that embraced updated forms of Marxism to challenge both Western capitalism and Soviet-style communism.
What is the New Left.
The first president of the Russian Federation at the end of the Cold War.
Who is Yeltsin.
The emergence of a freer, more technologically connected global economy, as well as an exchange of cultural, political, and religious ideas.
What is globalization.
During this WWII conference, President Truman insisted that Stalin immediately allow free elections in the Eastern European states.
What was the Potsdam Conference.
This agreement established respect for human rights and the recognition of existing political boundaries.
What is the Helsinki Agreement.
The most famous of the student revolts of 1968 occurred in this western European country.
What is France.
The term given to the relatively peaceful overthrow of communism in Czechoslovakia.
What was the Velvet Revolution.
The basis for the formation of the European Union, which defined criteria for membership in the monetary union.
What is the Maastricht Treaty.