Ch. 31
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Romania | The only Eastern European country that experienced a bloody revolution in 1989. |
| Chechnya | Republic that declared idependence from Russia that resulted in bloody civil war |
| Israel | Homeland for Jews established after the British left Palestine in 1948 |
| Poland | differed from other Eastern Bloc countries because they had an independent agriculture and a strong church-also first country to elect a non-communist leader |
| Gorbachev Reforms in USSR | antialcoholism and anticorruption |
| Privatized companies | businesses that ultimately ended up in the hands of former Soviet managers and bureaucrats |
| Vladimir Putin | elected president of Russia in 2000 |
| Terrorism and Civil War | two major ingredients of modern conflicts |
| Lech Walesa | leader of Solidarity Movement in Poland in the 1980s |
| Mujahideen | Afghanistan freedom fighters |
| Maastricht Treaty of 1991 | agreement that resulted in a singel currency for the European Union-caused massive protest marches and general strike in France |
| Boris Yeltsin | Mayor of Moscow and later president of Russian who saved Gorbachev from coup by hard line communists |
| Europe's mission in the 21st century | to promote human rights, democracy, and prosperity outside Europe |
| Gulf War | clearly illlustrated that the USA was the only remaining superpower in the world |
| Greater Serbia | Milosevic's plan that hastened civil war in Yugoslavia |
| Srebrenica | locale of slaughter of citizens that brought NATO troops into action against the Bosnian Serbs |
| Missiles in Cuba | conflict between the USA (Kennedy) and the USSR (Krushchev) |
| Velvet Revolution | movement that finally drove Soviets out of Czechoslovakia |
| Paris Accord | brought an end to the cold war and WWII |
| re-Stalinization | A return to Stalin's more restrictive policies, under Brezhnev's rule. |
| Great Russians | Nationalistic Russians within the USSR. Hated liberalism and democracy |
| Gdansk Agreement | The Polish agreement to allow free-trade unions, free speech, freedom of political prisoners, and economic reforms. |
| Solidarity | Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. |
| perestroika | A policy of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to revitalize the Soviet economy by opening it up to more free enterprise |
| glasnost | a Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information |
| third way | A term used to describe the new and more central left-wing parties of the 1990s, most notably Britain's "New Labour". |
| Alliance for Germany | Political party in East Germany that called for the unification of East and West Germany |
| New World Order | the triumph of capitalism over communism, wherein the United States becomes the world's only superpower and therefore its policing force |
| globalization | The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world. |
| European Union | international organization comprised of Western European countries to promote free trade among members |
| baby bust | at the opening to the 21st century, Europe was experiencing falling birthrates that seemed to promise a shrinking and aging population in the future. |
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