Cold War
United Nations
Truman Doctrine
Arms Race
“Iron Curtain”- Churchill
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Political Changes In Europe
Germany after the War
Germany Federal Republic of Germany=West Germany Social Democrats vs. Christian Democratic Union Chancellor Konrad Adenaeur German Democratic Republic=East Germany Communist controlled until 1990
Main party= Christian Democrats Communist Party barred from politics Italy
Great Britain Labour vs. Conservative Parties
France 4 th Republic President= Charles de Gaulle France became entangled in colonial wars Republic fell because of Algerian crisis 5 th Republic President= Charles de Gaulle Independence to colonies Student rebellions in 1968
USSR Stalin died Nikita Khrushchev Attacked Stalin’s “cult of personality” “Peaceful coexistence” Ousted by Leonid Brezhnev in 1964
Eastern Europe Rebellion in Poland Rebellion in Hungary
Economic Changes
Marshall Plan
Bretton-Woods
Common Market
International Cold War
China
Korean War