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April 25 Postwar Europe

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The Atlantic Charter was the foundingThe 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 theUnited Nations
The Percentages Agreement signed between Stalin and Churchill dealt withspheres of influence in Eastern Europe
The Truman Doctrine came about as a direct result ofBritain'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 situationUnited 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 CommunitstTruman---This later became known as the Truman Doctrine
During the "Prague Spring" of 1968, Czechoslovakia attempted toallow 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 byLeonid 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 toa 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 asWest Germany
The student revolts in Paris in 1968involved 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 programfailed to improve the average Russian's standard of living
Perestroika wasan 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 toan inability to break away from the limits of central planning



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