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🇪🇺European History – 1945 to Present
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396 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your European History – 1945 to Present exam

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1955 Warsaw Treaty
1989 protests
1999 NATO Enlargement
2004 EU Accession

A

Accords d'Évian
Acquis communautaire
Alexander Dubček
Algeria's FLN
Allied Control Council
Alternative for Germany
Anatoly Dobrynin
Andrei Sakharov
Angela Merkel
Ante Marković
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Anti-brexit
Anti-communist
Anti-globalization movements
Anti-immigration
Anti-nuclear movements
Article 5
Article 50
Asylum systems
Atlantic Charter
August Agreements

B

Baader-Meinhof Group
Balkan Route
Baltic States
Basket I
Basket III
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Belgrade Conference
Berlin Crisis
Bilateral aid agreements
Bilateral trade agreements
Border control
Boris Yeltsin
Brandenburg Gate
British decolonization in India
British Invasion
Brussels Agreement

C

Campaign for nuclear disarmament
Capitalist democracies
Centralized Economic Planning
Charter 77
Checkpoint Charlie
Chernobyl Disaster
Christian Democratic Union
Civil defense measures
Codecision procedure
Cohesion Fund
Collective Defense
Collective leadership
Collective Trauma
Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER)
Committee of the Regions
Common Agricultural Policy
Common agricultural policy (CAP)
Common Commercial Policy
Common external tariff
Common Foreign and Security Policy
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Commonwealth of Nations
Communist Totalitarian States
Competition policy
Congress of People's Deputies
Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty
Convergence criteria
Copenhagen Criteria
Cotonou Agreement
Council of Ministers
Crimea Annexation
Cultural diplomacy
Cultural heritage preservation
Cultural liberalization