ap euro chapter 28
It allows for an expansion of production, which creates new income and purchasing power
According to Ludwig Erhard in Primary Source 28.2: Western European Recovery and the Promise of Prosperity, what is the importance of consumer credit?
The items shown by Nizon were not needed in life; they were merely gadgets
As seen in Primary Source 28.3: The Nixon-Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate", when Richard M. Nixon pointed out the wonders of the model American house, Khrushchev often responded, "We also have such things." What other argument did he present?
The Soviet arm already occupied much of Eatern Europe
At the time of the Yalta Conference in 1945, why was the position of the Soviet Union much stronger in negotiations with the United States and Great Britain?
West Germany
Christian Democrats in which country promoted a "social-market economy" based on a combination of free-market liberalism, some state intervention, and an extensive social benefits network?
He promised to expropriate land from the large landowners
How did Mao Zedong gain the support of the peasantry in China?
As politically unreliable because of their exposure to Wester European society
How did the Soviet Union and Eastern European Communist regimes treat displaced persons returning home after the war?
It encouraged European nations to let go of their former colonies
How did the United States respond to the decolonization movement in the first years after the Second World War?
Having lived in Algeria for several generations, these European Algerians threatened revolt against France if France did not oppose the Islamic independence movement
How did the pieds-noirs complicate the experience of decolonization in Algeria?
France
In 1954, Vietnam obtained independence from
Economic growth
In the 1950s and 1960s, what became the basic objective of all Western European governments?
a surprising attack on Stalin and his crimes
Khrushcev's "secret speech" at the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956 was
link the Western European currencies to the U.S dollar
The Bretton Woods agreement of 1944
A Western Europe on the verge of economic collapse
The Marshall Plan in 1947 was a response to
increased demand for technologists and managers
The growth of the middle class in the postwar era has been attributed primarily to
Nuremburg
The international military tribunal organized b the four Allied powers to try the highest-ranking Nazi military and civilian leaders was held in the city of
bind the six members of the European Coal and Steel Community so closely that war would be impossible
The ultimate goal of the plan for an international organization to coordinate coal and steel production in Europe in the 1950s was to
The idea of a system designed to perpetuate Western economic domination and undermine political independence
What does neocolonialism refer to?
Josip Broz Tito
Who was the only Communist leader able to successfully resist Soviet domination?
It protrayed in grim detail life in a Stalinist concentration camp
Why did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich create such a sense (missing) when it was published in 1962?
He viewed the United States as the main threat to French Independence
Why did Charles de Gaulle withdraw France from NATO?