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| Marshall Tito: | Who: the leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1945 until his death in 1980 |
| Marshall Tito: | What: During World War II, Tito organized the anti-fascist resistance movement known as the National Liberation Movement led by Yugoslav Partisans. Tito controlled Yugoslavia for 35 years. Later he was a founding member of COM inform, but resisted Soviet influence (see Titoism) and became one of the main founders and promoters of the Non-Aligned Movement. |
| Marshall Tito: | Where: Yugoslavia |
| Marshall Tito: | When: 7 May 1892 ñ 4 May 1980 |
| Marshall Tito: | Significance: One of the last influential manipulators of post-war global power politics, Tito's policies, however, encouraged separatist and nationalist tendencies among rival republics, which helped to sow the seeds for bloody civil war in the 1990s, some ten years after his death. |
| ìIron Curtainî: | Who: Winston Churchill- May 10, 1940, British Prime minister |
| ìIron Curtainî: | What: Is a figure of speech, relating to a curtain that takes away the light, well the Iron is referred to as being so strong, that it would just encircle itself around Europe until all was under its control |
| ìIron Curtainî: | Where: Europe especially in Eastern Europe, but slowly engulfing the rest of Europe |
| ìIron Curtainî: | When: March 1946 |
| ìIron Curtainî: | Significance: it was descending across the continent, dividing Europe into two hostile camps, with in a few months the world seemed to be bitterly divided once again |
| Marshall Plan: | Who: Secretary of State George Marshall and was largely the creation of State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan. George Marshall spoke of the administration's want to help European recovery in his address at Harvard University in June 1947 |
| Marshall Plan: | What: officially the European Recovery Program, ERP, was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger foundation for the countries of Western Europe |
| Marshall Plan: | Where: Eastern Europe |
| Marshall Plan: | When: during WW II- June 1947 |
| Marshall Plan: | Significance: it was the Europeans way to counter act the Truman Doctrine that the US had made, Marshall Plan Provided $13 billion to rebuild war-torn European states that would go over to Communism |
| COMECON: | Who: was an economic organization of communist states and a kind of Eastern Bloc equivalent toóbut more geographically inclusive thanóthe European Economic Community. |
| COMECON: | What: The military equivalent to the Comecon was the Warsaw Pact, though Comecon's membership was significantly wider. |
| COMECON: | Where: Eastern Europe/ and a part of Western Europe |
| COMECON: | When: 1949ñ1991 |
| COMECON: | Significance: The Comecon was the Eastern Bloc's reply to the formation of the OEEC (Organization of European Economic Co-operation) |
| Containment: | To keep communism within its existing Boundaries and prevent further Soviet aggressive moves. Containment became a U.S policy. |
| Domino Theory: | Who: US |
| Domino Theory: | What: was a foreign policy theory, promoted by the government of the United States that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. |
| Domino Theory: | Where: it was made it the US, but it related directly to Eastern Europe and Asia |
| Domino Theory: | When: During the Cold War |
| Domino Theory: | Significance: The domino theory was used by successive United States administrations during the Cold War to justify American intervention around the world. |
| Truman Doctrine: | Who: President Harry S. Truman |
| Truman Doctrine: | What: he addressed Congress to request $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey, as well as authorization to send American economic and military advisers to the two countries. |
| Truman Doctrine: | Where: it was decided in the states but if affect Greece and Turkey |
| Truman Doctrine: | When: March 12, 1947 |
| Truman Doctrine: | Significance: It was designed primarily to overcome public and congressional opposition to United States direct involvement in Europe |
| NATO: | Who: Belgium, Luxemburg, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, and Iceland |
| NATO: | What: North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NATO: | Where: US, Can, Bel, Lux, Fra, Neth, GB, It, Den, Nor, Por, Ice |
| NATO: | When: April 1949 |
| NATO: | Significance: All involved powers agreed to provide mutual help if any one of them was attacked |
| Warsaw Pact: | Who: Soviet Union joined with Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania |
| Warsaw Pact: | What: a formal military Alliance |
| Warsaw Pact: | Where: Eastern Europe |
| Warsaw Pact: | When: 1955 |
| Warsaw Pact: | Significance: Europe was once again divided into hostile alliance systems, Just as it had been before WW I |
| Cuban Missile Crisis: | Who: Russia ‡ Khrushchev |
| Cuban Missile Crisis: | What: Russia began to place nuclear missiles in Cuba |
| Cuban Missile Crisis: | Where: Cuba |
| Cuban Missile Crisis: | When: Cold War |
| Cuban Missile Crisis: | Significance: people in the US began to practice bomb hiding techniques, and Kennedy and Khrushchev, were waiting for the other to push the button. The Cuban missile crisis marked the point at which the Cold War began to thaw. Both sides had peered over the precipice of nuclear war and wisely decided to retreat. The thaw also led to the signing of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963 by Britain, the United States, and the USSR. |
| Charles DeGaulle: | Who: was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II |
| Charles DeGaulle: | What: founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969 |
| Charles DeGaulle: | Where: France |
| Charles DeGaulle: | When: 22 November 1890 ñ 9 November 1970 |
| Charles DeGaulle: | Significance: With the formation of the Fifth Republic, de Gaulle replaced a weak and constantly changing government, to which the public responded with indifference, with a stable and effective government that the French greeted with enthusiasm. His independent stance in foreign affairs gave France a strong position in a changing world. |
| Konrad Adenauer: | Who: was a German states man |
| Konrad Adenauer: | What: he is most noted for his role as the first Chancellor of West Germany from 1949ñ1963 and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1950 to 1966. He was the oldest chancellor ever to serve Germany, beginning his first ministry at the age of 73 and leaving at the age of eighty-seven. Only Helmut Kohl has served the Federal Republic of Germany as Chancellor longer (1982-1998 or sixteen years), while only Otto von Bismarck has served a longer term as Chancellor of any unified German state (1871-1890 in the Second Reich, or the German Empire under Prussia, which lasted from 1871 to 1918 |
| Konrad Adenauer: | Where: Germany |
| Konrad Adenauer: | When: 5 January 1876 ñ 19 April 1967 |
| Konrad Adenauer: | Significance: Adenauer's main goal was to establish West Germany as a barricade of the Western alliance to contain Soviet expansion in Europe. He promoted close relations with the United States and reconciliation with France, avoiding any move toward reunion with Communist East Germany. In 1955, under Adenauer's leadership, West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and won recognition as an independent nation. |
| Sputnik: | Who: Soviets |
| Sputnik: | What: The first Human made space satellite, to orbit the earth |
| Sputnik: | When: 1957 |
| Sputnik: | Where: Soviet Union and Space |
| Sputnik: | Significance: it began the space race between US and SU, and gave America new fears to worry about. |
| Margaret Thatcher: | Who: British Conservative Party politician, |
| Margaret Thatcher: | What: first woman to hold the office of prime minister of the United Kingdom |
| Margaret Thatcher: | Where: Great Britain |
| Margaret Thatcher: | When:(1979-1990) |
| Margaret Thatcher: | Significance: |
| NAFTA: | Who &What & When: a free trade agreement signed between the United States and Canada in 1989, and extended to include Mexico in 1994. |
| NAFTA: | Significance: NAFTA forms the world's second-largest free-trade zone; by uniting Canada, Mexico, and the United States in an open market, the grouping brings together more than 400 million consumers. |
| Simone de Beauvoir: | Who: French feminist novelist |
| Simone de Beauvoir: | What: mong de Beauvoir's non-fiction works are Le DeuxiËme Sexe (1949; The Second Sex, 1953), a profound analysis of women's role in society |
| Simone de Beauvoir: | When: 1950ís |
| Simone de Beauvoir: | Significance: |
