AP®︎ European History: Topic 9.1 Flashcards

Master key terms and definitions for Topic 9.1 of AP European History – Contextualizing Cold War and Contemporary Europe to help you prep for quizzes and the AP exam.

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Cold War

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The post-1945 rivalry between the liberal capitalist West and communist Soviet East, fought through alliances, pressure, propaganda, espionage, proxy wars, and an arms race rather than direct full-scale superpower war

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Cold War
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The post-1945 rivalry between the liberal capitalist West and communist Soviet East, fought through alliances, pressure, propaganda, espionage, proxy wars, and an arms race rather than direct full-scale superpower war

Unit 9: Learning Objective AKC-4.1.IV
Iron Curtain
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The political, military, economic, and ideological separation between the Soviet-dominated East and the Western states during the Cold War

Unit 9: Learning Objective AKC-4.1.IV
European Integration / Transnational European Integration
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The postwar pooling of economic and political authority across national borders to promote recovery, prevent renewed war, and build shared European institutions

Unit 9: Learning Objective AKC-4.1
Contextualization
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Explaining how broader developments before or around an event made it possible, meaningful, or historically significant

Unit 9: Learning Objective A