| Importance | Person/Event/Organization |
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| Britain's PM during WWII; Iron Curtain Speech | |
| Soviet leader during WWII | |
| A Croation Revolutionary movement/ Insurrection movement; anti-Yugoslav seperatist movement that during WWII was appointed by Hitler to rule in the newly formed Independent state o | |
| Yugoslavia mostly Serbs, Croatians biggest minority; C. sided with Germany b/c saw it as a way to get independence - and they were granted a large independent state that was to be | |
| Germans living in the Soviet Union; they had been invited to the SU prior to WWII b/c they had great technical skills (want to modernize SU) but during WWII SU had its own ethnic c | |
| tried Nazi party leadership (22) 1945-46; pros: trial held, transparent, defined 'crimes against humanity', records kept, 12/22 sentenced | |
| Germany was occupied (US, B, F, and SU zones) and occupiers mandated that all citizens undergo this process; they had to visit concentration camps | |
| Italy, radical and nationalist authoritarian ideology | |
| gov of F from 1940-1944, followed the Third Republic; ruled during Nazi occupations and did have an anti-Semitic campaign; popular in F | |
| leader (PM) of the Vichy regime; declared Vichy regime after Nazi Germany had defeated France | |
| | Importance | Person/Event/Organization |
|---|
| Communist leader of Yugoslavia; during WWII led successful resistance movements to German occupation - ended up with a widely popular party; initially aligned with Stalin, but they | |
| Big 3 (Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill) met in Feb 1945 - last time the 3 would meet; agreed that G would be divided into 4 occupied zones once defeated, UN would be created | |
| Agreement hashed out between Churchill and Stalin in 1944 at Moscow Conference that literally laid out what 'percent' of influence each country ought to have in E. Europe | |
| Churchill's successor, leader of the Labour party; got an absolute majority of 150 in 1945 | |
| wanted to get Europe back on its feet so that US could pull out + figured that would be best for international econ + feared that if Euro in disarray that Left and Right wing part | |
| Soviet dominated organization of Communist parties; formed after the Paris Conference on Marshall Aid - intent was to coordinate actions between Communist parties under Soviet dire | |
| US provided aid to B who were supporting a right-backed gov against communist rebels in Greece; Truman claimed that aid needed to be given because this was a fight against communis | |
| currency introduced to US/B zone in 1948; SU responded by introducing own East Mark and cutting all transportation and electricity to West Berlin | |
| 1949 following Berlin Airlift F, B and US merged their zones and agreed to pull troops out of WG and let Germany create its own gov; W. Germany did so and they drafted the 'basic l | |
| Sep 1, 1948 elected by the first parliament to be president of W. Germany; he would build ties w/ US, strengthen relations w/ F, free market approach to econ policy, willing to tem | |
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