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