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The Atlantic Charter was the founding | The United Nations |
This joint proclamation between Roosevelt and Churchill in 1941 declared that the struggle against the Axis posers was to "insure life, liberty, independence, and religious freedom to preserve the rights of man and justice" | The Atlantic Charter |
A central postwar goal for Roosevelt was the establishment of the | United Nations |
The Percentages Agreement signed between Stalin and Churchill dealt with | spheres of influence in Eastern Europe |
The Truman Doctrine came about as a direct result of | Britain's withdrawal from Greece |
When the Second World War ended Britain had 40,000 troops in Greece and was providing the military and financial support that allowed for the survival of the Greek government in its struggle with a *** insurgency. | Communist |
Britain informed ****** that it would withdraw from Greece at the end of March 1947 due to its own dire financial situation | United States |
President ***** went before Congress and requested money for the Greeks, using the justification that the United States needed to support any nation that was trying to avoid subjugation by Communitst | Truman---This later became known as the Truman Doctrine |
During the "Prague Spring" of 1968, Czechoslovakia attempted to | allow greater personal liberties |
In 1968 the "Prague Spring" movement in Czechoslovakia sought not to overturn the Socialist system but simply to allow greater personal liberties such as freedom of the press. It was brutally put down by | Leonid Brezhnev, the leader of the Soviet Union, when he decided the movement was a threat to Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe |
The German "economic miracle" was in part due to | a labor force enlarged by Germans fleeing from the east |
Millions of Germans expelled from Poland and Czechoslovakia were joined by millions of other Germans fleeing from the approaching Red Army in a mass migration into what later became established as | West Germany |
The student revolts in Paris in 1968 | involved student organizations with differing ideological agendas, stemmed from overcrowding in French universities, helped spark a general strike by French workers, and were partly in reaction to the Vietnam War |
Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika program | failed to improve the average Russian's standard of living |
Perestroika was | an attempt to redirect the Soviet economy toward meeting consumer demand, but it was to do so within the continuing structure of central planning |
The clear cut failure of Perestroika and a general decline in living standards was due to | an inability to break away from the limits of central planning |