Chapter 10 Interesting Facts and Information
Industrial Revolution – began GB in the 1700’s, it was a time when people used machinery and new methods to increase productivity.
WWI known as the Great War – machines designed for war were mass-produced. WWI
Trench warfare in WWI
Nazi’s – National Socialist German Worker’s party –Germany became a dictatorship under Adolf Hitler.
WWII – 1939 G attacked Poland and in 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
Axis Powers – Germany, Italy and Japan
Allied Powers – (1939)Britain, France, China, (1941) – United States and Soviet Union
Marshall Plan – 1948, US started a loan program to help rebuild Europe and try to stop the spread of communism.
Truman Doctrine – 1948, US offered military aid to countries fighting communism inside their borders. (Greece and Turkey)
NATO – North American Treaty Organization – 1949, formed to respond to possible attacks by the Soviet Union. (each member country agreed to treat an attack on any other member as an attack on itself.
BeNeLux trade union – Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg – an arrangement for free movement of money, goods, & people among these nations.
European Economic Community – Common Market – agreed to free trade among themselves. (became the European Union)
Warsaw Pact – 1955, Soviet Union formed its satellites into an anti Western military alliance.
Berlin Wall – (East – Communist), (West – non-communist) – split between Eastern and Western Europe.
Sputnik I – Soviets took lead in space race with US, in 1959, 1 st spacecraft to orbit the earth.
Yuri Gagarin – 1961, Soviet astronaut became 1 st human being to circle the earth.
Neil Armstrong – 1969, 1 st person to walk on the moon.
Boris Yeltsin
Yugoslavia – communist country- Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, & smaller Yugoslavia made up of Serbia & Montenegro
Czechoslovakia – became Czech Republic & Slovakia
1991 Soviet Union – broke into 15 independent republics.