Chapter 27 Review: Key Terms and People

Be sure you can identify the term or person and explain its historical significance.

cold war (p. 900)

Truman Doctrine (p. 904)

Marshall Plan (p. 905)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (p. 907)

Warsaw Pact (p. 907)

Christian Democrats (p. 910)

European Economic Community (EEC or Common Market) (p. 912)

welfare state (p. 913)

Nikita Khrushchev (p. 916)

decolonization (p. 918)

United Nations (UN) (p. 923)

Vatican II (p. 925)

existentialism (p. 926)

Simone de Beauvoir (p. 926)

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (p. 931)

Cuban missile crisis (p. 931)