Chapter 28 history
The growth of the middle class in the postwar era has been attributed primarily to what?
An increased demand for technologists and managers.
What was socialist realism?
Artists and writers were required to follow the dictates of communists ideals. Idealizing the working class of the soviet union enforced in the 1950s and early 60s.
What was the outcome of decolonization of the Belgium Congo?
Belgium withdrew quickly granting at independence with irresponsible haste.
How did the soviet union and eastern european communist regimes treat displaced persons returning home after the war?
Considered politically unreliable due to their exposure to western European society
Change in the structure of european society after WW2 was primarily the result of what?
Economic and technological transformation
In the 1950s and 60s, what became the basic objective of all Western European governments?
Economic growth.
How did the soviet union's treatment of Czechoslovakia in 1948 demonstrate consolidation its hold on eastern Europe?
Even though czech communist party won electoral support, stalin overthrew the government and established a one party communist dictatorship.
In 1954 Vietnam obtained independence from where?
France
Why did Charles Degall withdraw France from NATO?
He viewed the United States as the main threat to France's independence.
How did the soviet union initially organize the eastern European nations as they threw out pro-nazi regimes?
It created coalition governments of political parties but reserved pro key government posts for Russian communists
What did the Marshall plan accomplish?
It prevented economic collapse in Western Europe.
What was the consequence of Franklin D. Roosevelt agreement with Joseph Stalin at the teron conference that the British American armies would launch a frontal assault on France?
Only the soviet troops would liberate eastern Europe
After the second world war, the soviet union
Re-established a harsh dictatorship
Krushavs secret
Surprise against Stalin and his crimes
Which position did Christian democrats endorse during the 1950s?
The Soviet Union
The ultimate goal of the plan for an international organization to coordinate coal and steel production in Europe?
The bind the six members of the european coal and steel community so closely that war would be impossible
To receive Marshall plan aid, European states were required to cooperate together
The result was the organization with organic cooperation
Who was the only communist
Tito
Post colonial migration
postwar movement of people from former colonies and the developing world into Europe
What 6 western European countries formed the common market in 1957?
France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, and West Germany
How did the East German government respond to the nationwide demonstration against poor wages and working conditions in 1953?
Permitted soviet troops and jail the demonstrators but then instituted reforms to respond to the demonstrator's strongest commands.
Neocolonialism
Post colonial system that perpetrated western economic exploitation in former colonial territories
What did Nikita destalinization campaign call for?
The communist party to retain it monopoly of political power.
What was the result of breaking the Berlin blockade in 1948-49?
The creation of two separate German states.
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?
The soviet union occupied much of Eastern Europe
