Wednesday, April 6, 2011

SPRITE Notes for Chapter 31......

I tried to keep these as simple as possible by eliminating some of the other SPRITE topics.


Geography
-Countries of the Eastern Block
-Division of German territory
-Countries that had communist governments separate from Soviet Union- Albania, Greece and Yugoslavia


Political
-Colonies that breakaway from European control (Egypt, Vietnam and India)
-Solidarity
-Nikita Khrushchev- How did he change Soviet government after Stalin?
-Mikhail Gorbachev
-NATO-Why was it established?  What did it do?


Economic
-Marshall Plan
-Western European countries received aid to fight communism
-Military spending was #1 in US during Cold War
-Welfare state-What services were being offered?
-Technocrat
-European Economic Community (EU)
-European economy post WWII?- All time high,  low unemployment



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