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| European Economic Community | Economic alliance that built off the European Coal and Steel Community; western European nations developed a "common market" for trade and cooperation |
| NATO | Mutual defense organization that included the USA, western European states, and Turkey; designed to defend against the Soviet Union |
| Marshall Plan | $13 billion aid package from the United States to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II |
| European Union | The current economic organization that includes a free trade zone, free movement of labor, and a common currency, known as the euro |
| Warsaw Pact | The communist military organization that included the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites like Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia |
| COMECON | The Soviet Union's economic package that incorporated the eastern European communist countries |
| Viet Minh | Vietnamese national movement led by Ho Chi Minh that fought for independence from France |
| French National Front | Conservative, nationalist movement that was formed because of concerns about large numbers of immigrants from former French colonies |
| Algeria's National Liberation Front | Political movement and party that fought for indepedence from France, employing guerilla tactics vs. French forces |
| Indian National Congress | Under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, transformed into a mass movement, adopting nonviolent civil disobedience to demand independence. |
| Simone de Beauvior | Philosopher and writer who wrote "The Second Sex" and argued that women's roles were a social construct |
| First-wave Feminism | Women's rights movement that focused on voting rights (suffrage), education, and property rights for wome |
| Margaret Thatcher | Conservative British Prime Minister who reduced the size of Britain's welfare state and played a role in Cold War opposition to Soviet Union |
| Second-wave Feminism | Women's rights movement that focused on reproductive rights, ending domestic violence, and equal pay in workforce |
| Hungary | Country that rebelled against Soviet control in 1956; in 1989 it participated in Eastern European revolutions against communist rule |
| Solidarity | Labor union movement in Poland against communism and Soviet control; helped spur the 1989 revolutions that ended communism in Eastern Europe |
| Czechoslovakia | Country that rebelled against Soviet control in the 1968 "Prague Spring," after 1989 revolutions it split peacefully into two countries in the "Velvet Revolution" |
| Glasnost and Perestroika | Reform programs of "openness" and "economic restructuring" enacted by Soviet leader Gorbachev; these programs led to the break up of the USSR in 1991 |
| Yugoslavia | Eastern European country that broke up into several states after the fall of communism in 1989; violent national fighting took place there among Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Last leader of USSR, tried to reform it but his reforms led to collapse of Soviet Union |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of USSR after Stalin died; "secret speech" about "destalinization" led to Hungary revolt; he pushed building of Berlin Wall |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Leader of USSR after Khrushchev forced out; his doctrine led to crushing of "Prague Spring" in Czechoslovakia in 1968 by Soviet troops |
