Cold War # 2 Study Guide/Notes *Homework Assignment People Khrushchev: Leader after Stalin, crushed the Hungarian Revolt.

. Imre Nagy: Hungarian Politician, appointed twice for Prime Minister. Dubcek: Slovak Politician, brief leader of Czechoslovakia, famous for his attempt to reform the Communist regime (Prague Spring) Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a Soviet and Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. He helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Awarded Nobel Prize in Lit. Josip Broz Tito: Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. Led the WWII guerrilla movement. Leonid Brezhnev: General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, President of USSR Mikhail Gorbachev: the former 7th and last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, President of USSR de Beauvoir: Feminist, Wrote The Second Sex, a detail analysis of womens oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. Konrad Adenauer : Chancellor of Germany in West Germany John F. Kennedy: the 35th President of the United States, involved in Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis Lyndon B. Johnson: 36th President of the United States, succeeded JFK after assassination, involved in civil rights and the Vietnam War. Martin Luther King Jr.: King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. Jimmy Carter: 39th President of the United States, created two new cabinet departments: the Department of Energy and Department of Education. Ronald Reagan: 40th President of the United States, served as President of the Screen Actors Guild and later spokesman of GE (General Electric) Ended the Cold War. Brandt: Chancellor of West Germany, Won the Nobel peace Prize Terms/Topics Baby Boom: term "boom" to refer to the phenomenon of increased births in post war America Permanent Prosperity: Welfare State: a concept of government where the state plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the economic and social well-being of its citizens. It is based on the principles of equality of opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for those unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life. 5 Year Plan: Dtente: the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation SALT I: (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) SALT II: Prague Spring: a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. Evil Empire: applied especially to the Soviet Union by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities. INF Treaty: (The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles.) Perestroika: a political movement within the Communist Party of Soviet Union widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system. Glasnost: the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s. Creditor Natism :

Market Economy: economy based on the power of division of labor in which the prices of goods and services are determined in a free price system set by supply and demand. Command Economy: an economic system in which the state directs the economy. Ost-Politik: a term for the "Change Through Rapprochement" policy made by Brandt

Cold War #3 Study Guide/Notes *Homework Assignment People Walesa: he co-founded Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland 1990 95. Ceausescu: a Romanian politician who was the Secretary General of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, President of the Council of State from 1967, and President of Romania from 1974 to 1989. Vaclav Havel: The 10th and last president of Czechoslovakia Milosevic: President of Serbia and Yugoslavia Miterand: 21st President of the French Republic Putin: Yeltin: Nixon: Ford: George H.W. Bush: George W. Bush: Bill Clinton: Terms/Topics European Economic Community (EEC): Budget Deficit: Article of Impeachment: Euro: Thatcherism: Gender Parity: Cultural Imperialism: Gender Stereotyping: Racial Quotas: Globalization: Munich 72: Kosovo: Ethnic Cleansing: Ost-Politik: Reunification of East and West Germany: Music-Change: Iranian Hostage Crisis: Chechnya: German Civil Unrest: Ireland 60s 70s: