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Chapter 30: After The Fall: The Western World In A Global Age (Since 1985)

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Gorbachev
First secretary of the party in the city of Stavropol, first secretary of the regional party committee, March 1985 new leader of the Soviet Union, preached the need for radical reforms
Perestroika
"Reconstructing "a term applied to them Mikhail Gorbachev's economic, political, and social reforms in the Soviet Union
Glasnost
"Openness" Gorbachev's policy of encouraging Soviet citizens to openly discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet Union
Congress of People's Deputies
New Soviet Parliament, members chosen in competitive elections
USSR
92 nationalities and 112 recognized languages, tensions resurfaced as result of glasnot
Lithuania
Republic of Soviet union they became independent on March 11, 1990, caused by Gorbachev's reforms
Yeltsin
Elected president of the Russian Republic in June 1991
Commonwealth of Independent States
Leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus announced that the Soviet Union had "cease to exist", replace the Soviet Union
Chechnya
Muslim people sought national independence from Russia - drained the government's budget and expose the decrepit state of the once vaunted red army
Putin
Former member of the KGB, successor Offield send centralize power and the federal government and Moscow, launched reforms that aimed at boosting economic growth and budget revenues
Lech Walesa
The head of solidarity, and December 1990, was chosen as a new Polish president
Hungary
Economy sad by the late 1980s, the communist regime began to undertake reforms, March 1990, democratic government
Havel
Replaced Husák as president in Czechoslovakia, important role in bringing the communist government down
Ceaușescu
Rejected Gorbachev's reforms, Romanian dictator, reduce foreign debt by dropping living standards, executed on Christmas Day
Kwasniewski
Former communist, elected president of Poland in November 1995, increased prosperous free market economy
NATO
Post-Cold War you Eastern European states desire to join, 1997, Poland, Czech Republic, and hungry became full-time members
EU
Major Cold War institution of Western European unity, it doesn't for 10 nations joined the EU (European Union)
November 9, 1989
German communist government open entire border with the West (Berlin Wall)
Yugoslavia
Peace treaties after World War I combined the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, and of the 1980s caught up with reform
Milošević
Leader of this Serbian communist party in 1987, emphasize his Serbian nationalism, rejected reforms, sent Yugoslavian army into Slovenia without success, assaulted Croatia
Bosnia
Serbs turned their guns against Bosnia, mid 1993, Serbian forces have acquired 70% of Bosnia (independent)
Ethnic Cleansing
A policy of killing or forcibly removing people of another ethnic group, used by the Serbs against Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s
Dayton
All sides were encouraged by the US to end the war and meet in Dayton Ohio in November 1995 for negotiations
Kosovo
Autonomous province within Yugoslavia in 1944, Milošević stripped autonomous states and I'll lot official use of Albanian language
KLA
Kosovo liberation Army, beginning campaign against Serbian rule in Kosovo's, Serbs began massacres to stop KLA
NATO
Tried to resolve war in Kosovo and, NATO Allies begin a bombing campaign that forced Yugoslavian government into compliance
Montenegro
Kostunica government renamed the truncated country Serbia, food for independence into 2006
Reunification
Reunification of the two Germanies, accomplished during Kohls and administration, new problems arose economically
Stasi
Millions of East Germans has spied on their neighbors and colleagues, during the communist era (secret police)
Merkel
Leader of the Christian Democrats, became the first female counselor in Germany history
John Major
Replaced Thatcher, conservative party, narrow when in April 1992, government failed to capture the imagination of most Britons's
Tony Blair
Labour Party, new prime minister Britain, a moderate that and still new Vincour into political scene, international coalition against terrorism
Chirac
Conservative mayor of Paris, elected president, pursued a plan of sending it legal immigrants back to their home countries
Sarkozy
Electric president of France and in 2007, promised to address the social unrest throughout the country (Muslim and community in remainder of the French population)
Berlusconi
Owner of a media empire, has dominated Italian politics, even though you became a politician primarily in order to protect his own business interest, lost to socialist Romano Prodi
EU
EC renamed, goal to create a common currency, euro, adopted by 12 EU nations, European Central Bank, agricultural policy
Euro
Common currency introduced by EU, adopted by 12 EU nations, replaced 13 national currencies
INF treaty
Initiated by Gorbachev in 1987 in agreement with the US to eliminate intermediate range nuclear weapons
Persian Gulf War
Iraq invasion of Kuwait, tested relationship of post-Cold War Soviet union and US, US liberated Kuwait, supported by the Soviet Union
"New World Order"
New post Cold War era, US Pres. George HW Bush looking forward to a new era of peace and international cooperation
Munich Olympics
Palestinian terrorist kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, millions of people watching drama unfold
Baader-Meinhof
Left wing terrorist group in Germany, consisted of affluent middle-class young people who denounced capitalism and supported terrorism to end it
Red Brigades
Left wing terrorist group it Italy consisted of affluent middle-class young people who denounced capitalism and supported terrorism to end it
Charles Martel
Right wing terrorist group in France, used bombings to foment disorder and bring about authoritarian regime, received little or no public support
Neo-Nazi
Member of the organization similar to Germany Nazi party
IRA
Irish Republican Army which resorted to attacks, vicious attacks against the ruling government and innocent civilians in northern Ireland
Pan-Am 103
Flight from Frankfurt to New York exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 258 passengers and crew members, bomb planted by two Libyan terrorist connected to terrorist group (December 21, 1988)
9/11
Four groups of terrorists hijacked commercial jet airplanes, to airplanes flown directly into the towers of World Trade Center, one slammed into the Pentagon, one isolated area, 3000 people killed
al Qaeda
These coordinated acts of terrorism of 9/11, run by Osama bin Laden
Taliban
Protected Al Qaeda, nations militants and fundamentalist Islamic rulers (Afghanistan)
USS Cole
Bin Laden suspected of directing earlier terrorist attack on a naval ship in 2000
Afghanistan
US and NATO air forces began bombing Taliban controlled, command centers, airfields, and al Qaeda places
Iraq War
American-led army invaded Iraq, US Pres. George Bush charged that Iraq dictator Saddam Hussain supported bin Laden organization is supplied weapons, US was not supported by UN
Khomeini
Lead new Islamic government, would anti-western sentiment, US with the "great Satan "
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