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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