De Gaullism While in the EEC, he voted to exclude GB. He thought they
were too tied to the US.
Treaty of Maastricht of 1991 Product of the EEC. This proposed the
creation of the Euro as the currency. Didnt work at first but it later came
into effect. Sti
Cold War Between ideologies of America and USSR. No shots were
fired directly at each other. Split Europe apart. Western Europe prospered.
Lots of tension - most people thought there was no way out except another
Buffer States Countries of Eas
Wladyslaw Gomulka Communist leader imprisoned under Stalin.
Released in 1954, he rose to power after demonstrations and became the
new leader of Poland. Since he was a genuine communist, supported the
Warsaw Pact, and cooperated with Moscow he would rule
COMECON Council of Mutual Assistance, organization established in
January 1949 to facilitate and coordinate the economic development of the
eastern European countries belonging to the Soviet bloc.
Satellite states Through a series of coalition government
1. Art Spiegelman created these two volumes for two main purposes. First and
foremost, he relives the horrors experienced by his father during the Holocaust.
This is the much rawer and visceral volume, as the story about Jewish
enslavement during t
Colonial Withdrawal The colonial powers after the war removed all their
colonial ties to their colonies, some because it was what democracy called
for, but a majority did it because they were too expensive to care for and
the indigenous forced them out.
Comic-strip storytelling hardly seems to fit the role of a retelling of the
Holocaust. Yet Art Spiegelman, the only surviving son of a survivor, provided
otherwise when he, in 1986, crafted a completely unique and distinctive way
of telling his
Helmut Kohl Leader of West Germany. Proponent of unification. Called
the West to help their Eastern brothers. Help rebuild East Germany.
Vaclav Havel Playwright. He wrote a bunch of stuff against being
oppressed. Became the new Czech leader.
1. The irony made apparent is that if Vladek and Anja had chosen to stay with
Motonowa, they would have been completely safe, as Miloch and his family
were. However, the decision to leave and go someplace safer in Hungary
actually resulted in thei
Maus I and II, brilliantly crafted by graphic novelist Art Spiegelman, tell of the
true story experienced by his father, Vladek Spiegelman, during the Holocaust. Told in
two volumes, Maus contains stories from two points of view: first, the Ar