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CHAPTER 21 Cold War (Key Terms & People: (Pax Americana -a term…

- - - - possibly 20 million people died in the work camps
      - Authors wrote about the horrible treatment in workcamps
      - Khrushchev fell from power in 1964
      - Khrushchev was aggressive and continued to try and catch up to the west
      - Khrushchev denounced Stalin and released political prisoners
    - - Brezhnev doctrine lead to unrest in USSR and many wanted freedom
      - The Vietnam war led to the loss of life for 15,000 USSR soldiers
      - Brezhnev stopped Czechoslovakia trying to escape the USSR with a policy called the "Brezhnev Doctrine"
- - - - The Sandinista rebelled against the leaders and 50,000 were killed in warfare
      - Nicaragua is now ruled by elected governments
      - The US supported the Nicaragua government becoming a family dynasty
    - - Panama got control of the Panama Canal back on 12-31-1999
    - - The CIA killed socialist leader Salvador Allende
      - Chile soon returned to a democracy
    - - Jacobo Arbenz bought arms from the US and his government fell
      - Carlos Castillo Armas undid most of the damage from Arbenz until he was assassinated
- - - - Per capita income multiplied with a flourishing economy
      - West Germany outpaced Europe but East Germany was left behind until the unification
      - The European Coal and Steel community to help rebuild the economy
    - - Japan had an industrial infrastructure
      - Japan bean to re surge in economic power
      - Japan even passed the United States in world's leading economy
      - Hong Kong and Singapore developed along with Japan
      - The oil shocked stalled economic growth in colonies
      - New goods were produced during this time
      - Robots helped to fill in where industries needed it