AP®︎ European History: Topic 9.2 Flashcards

Master key terms and definitions for Topic 9.2 of AP European History – Rebuilding Europe to help you prep for quizzes and the AP exam.

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Marshall Plan / European Recovery Program (ERP)

Definition

1948–1952 U.S. program that supplied about $13 billion in grants, loans, goods, and technical aid to reconstruct Western and Central Europe, stimulate growth, and contain communism

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Marshall Plan / European Recovery Program (ERP)
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1948–1952 U.S. program that supplied about $13 billion in grants, loans, goods, and technical aid to reconstruct Western and Central Europe, stimulate growth, and contain communism

Unit 9: Learning Objective BKC-4.2.IV.A
Counterpart Funds
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Local currency raised by selling Marshall Plan goods within recipient countries, then used for approved reconstruction, industrial investment, loans, and currency stabilization

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Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC)
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Organization founded in 1948 by Marshall Plan participants to coordinate recovery plans, distribute aid, share economic information, and reduce trade barriers

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Economic Miracle
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The prolonged postwar surge in Western and Central European industrial production, productivity, trade, incomes, and living standards

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Trente Glorieuses / Thirty Glorious Years
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France’s long postwar period of rapid economic growth, modernization, and rising living standards

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Wirtschaftswunder / German Economic Miracle
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West Germany’s rapid postwar recovery and export-led industrial growth, supported by aid, currency reform, investment, skilled labor, and the social market economy

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Social Market Economy
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West German system combining private enterprise and market competition with government regulation and social protections

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Monnet Plan
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French state-directed modernization plan that concentrated investment in coal, steel, electricity, transportation, and cement while retaining private enterprise

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Consumerism / Mass Consumption
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The growing economic and cultural importance of purchasing and possessing mass-produced goods, driven by rising wages, productivity, credit, advertising, and mass media

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