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Cold War
United Nations
Truman Doctrine
Arms Race
“Iron Curtain”- Churchill
Berlin Blockade and Airlift 1948-1949
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 BritainLabour vs. Conservative
Parties
France
4th Republic President= Charles de
Gaulle France became entangled
in colonial wars Republic fell because of
Algerian crisis
5th Republic
President= Charles de Gaulle
Independence to colonies Student rebellions in 1968
USSR
1953- Stalin died Nikita Khrushchev
Attacked Stalin’s “cult of personality”
“Peaceful coexistence”
Ousted by Leonid Brezhnev in 1964
Eastern Europe
1956- Rebellion in Poland1956- Rebellion in Hungary
Economic Changes
Marshall Plan
Bretton-Woods
Common Market
International Cold War
China
Korean War