AP World History – Chapter 31 Vocab – Flashcards

Soviet allies in eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary.

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

(1948) massive transfer of aid money to help rebuild postwar Western Europe; was intended to bolster capitalist and democratic governments and prevent domestic communist groups from riding poverty and misery to power; the plan was first announced by Secretary of State George Marshall at Harvard’s commencement in June 1947

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

…, North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries

Its primary function is obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons in order to advise public policymakers

A fiercely anti-Communist U.S. president who continued to move away from détente.

French author of The Second Sex. She argued for women’s rights and was also a prominent figure in the existentialist movement. She died in 1986.

The scientist(s) most often associated with the determining of the structure of DNA is (are)

French film director. Many films expressed him political views. Finds human experience irrational human problems are rational. Breathless 1960, a woman is a woman 1961. New wave.

Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war

An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

33rd President of the United States. Led the U.S. to victory in WWII making the ultimate decision to use atomic weapons for the first time. Shaped U.S. foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union after the war.

This was a political party popular during the “western renaissance” from 1945-1968. They were popular in Italy, France, and Germany. These people rejected authoritarianism and narrow nationalism and placed their faith in democracy and cooperation. In Germany, an important figure is Konrad Adenauer who in 1949, began his long highly successful democratic rule as former mayor of Cologne and a long-time anti-Nazi.

1921-2006. American feminist, activist and writer. Best known for starting the “Second Wave” of feminism through the writing of her book “The Feminine Mystique”.

A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West

Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.

This man wrote One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich after Khrushchev began to allow for literature to be published, especially if it damned Stalin, which his work did

a social movement in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, in which people organized to demand equal rights for African Americans and other minorities. People worked together to change unfair laws. They gave speeches, marched in the streets, and participated in boycotts.

a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula

Vice President under Reagan and President from 1989-1993; Economic recession and US involvement in the Persian Gulf war

was a French painter of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract art group “L’homme Témoin” (the Witness-Man)

Swedish director most accomplished and influential auteurs. Films documentaries and plays. Concerns with each other and silent god.

First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race.

USSR leader after Stalin, involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The collapse of colonial empires. Between 1947 and 1962, practically all former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence.

A wave of women’s rights agitation reappeared in the 1960s promoting job opportunities and other civil rights issues for women. Two early leaders were Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan

An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.

a group of countries that acts as a single market, without trade barriers between member countries

Political movement and party that arose in several western European nations in the 1970s that opposed unfettered free market economies and unchecked industrial pollution

President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education.

A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States.

Democrat (1993-2001) War in Bosnia; NAFTA, campaign that emphasized broad economic issues instead of the racial and cultural questions that had divided Democrats in the past., extended Palestinian self-rule and arranged timetables for Israeli withdrawal from disputed lands, was impeached due to the Monica Lewinski scandal and was later acquitted, cut spending; lowered taxes; decreased national debt

English biologist who co-discovered the structure of DNA (w/ James Watson)

British Abstract Sculptor He was the most influential and famous scuplturer of his generation; Famous for his large abstract forms…

English rock band formed in Liverpool that became the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed band in the era of rock music. Group did different genres such as psychedelic rock, pop ballads and incorporated other elements such as classical. Fans thought they embodied the ideals in the cultural revolution.

Khrushchev’s policy of purging the Soviet Union of Stalin’s memory; monuments of Stalin were destroyed; Stalin’s body was moved outside the Kremlin Wall; Khrushchev did this because he disliked Stalin for jailing and killing loyal Soviet citizens

A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.

a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of liberalism, i.e. protecting the rights of the individual, which are generally enshrined in law

In Great Britain, Social insurance measures increased, i.e. unemployment, medical care, & family assistance became state funded programs