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| US gave aide to Greece and Turkey to defeat communist forces there, pledge to aide all free peoples fighting communist aggression in domestic/foreign sources |
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| Massive aide package to help Europe recover from war & prevent communism from spreading into economically devasted regions, western and central europe recovered economically |
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| US pledged to prevent further spread of communism, created by George Kennan to respond against soviet aggression, led to domino theory |
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| Belief that nuclear war could be prevented if both the united state and the soviet union had sufficient nuclear weapons so that even if one nation launched a 1st attack, they could still be destroyed |
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| Collective security organization against communism - European democracies + US & canada |
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| Collective security organization of eastern bloc nations to counter NATO, signed by USSR and eastern european countries under soviet influence |
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| New leader of USSR, denounced stalin, thwarted the hungarian revolution and improved USSR relations abroad. Deposed for backing down in the cuban missile crisis and failure to improve the economy |
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| Kennedy's failed plan to invade Cuba and topple revolutionary leader Castro, withdrew unexpectedly and led to consolidation of castro's power and pushed cuba into signing a treaty with the soviet union |
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| N.K places nuclear missiles in Cuba, kennedy orders naval blockade and demands removal, N.K finally agrees to once blockade is ended, US removes missiles from Turkey. Leads to removal of Khrushchev from power. |
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| Belief that if the communists succeeded in vietnam, other countries in southeast and east asia would also fall to communism - justification for US vietnam intervention |
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| Egyptian president/prime minister, urged arab nations to unify against Israel, British and American influence, nationalization of the suez canal provoked a british military attack + also had a brief, unsuccessful war against israel |
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| Created Brezhnev doctrine, enunciated soviet union had a right to intervene if socialism was threatened in another socialist state, used to justify use of soviet troops in czchsvlkia |
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| Elected leader of czechoslovakia, ushered in period of liberalism and rebirth with the prague spring |
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| Brief period of liberalization in Czechoslovaki under Ducek, instituted reforms and revised the constitution, ended by the soviet union and the warsaw pact countries, deposed of dubcek and created a hardlin communist government - socialism with a human face |
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| Chancellor of Germany persues economic reforms: new currency, free markets, low taxes, and elimination of control to improve the economy |
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| Wartime leader of Free french, created the democratic 4th republic, aims to re-established France as a world power (independence of algeria, nuclear program) |
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| A social/political system in which the govt assumes the primary responsibility for the social welfare of its citizens by providing social security, unemployment benefits, and health care. |
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| European Coal and Steel Community |
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| Special international organization to control and integrate coal/steel production, included the 6 in hopes of creating a single competitive market |
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| Applied to society after WW2, working class adopts consumption patterns of middle class, installment plans, credit cards, and easy credit made consumer goods such as appliances and automobiles widely avalible. |
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| Term applied to western society after WW2 to reflect the new sexual freedom and the emergeence of a drug culture |
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| Energetic and spontaneous form of action painting that emerged in the mid 20th century dramatically large canvases and spontaneous expression of the unconscious (Pollock) |
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| Art form that took media images of popular culture and transformed them into works of art (Andy warhol) |
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| Sartre & Camus - emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existance as unexplainable and stresses the freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of ones actions |
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