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Unit VIII G C
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mikhail Gorbachev | -Soviet prime minister planning to make communist ideas more realistic -ended up granting more individual and political freedoms -disassociated government and political parties |
| perestroika and glasnost | -updated soviet economics, political and economic freedoms - helped repair the government by allowing individuals to report issues. |
| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | -aka the soviet union -last leader was Gorbachev, who was brought down by Yeltsin and his followers. |
| Boris Yeltsin | -arrested Gorbachev and brought about the fall of the soviet union, w/ him as the new leader in Russia -Created a new, unstable Russia, but resigned to allow Vladimir Putin to take control. |
| common wealth of independent States | -loose union of some of the previous members of the soviet union -mostly symbolically tying other nations together with Russia |
| Chechyna | -group of Muslim people seeking national independence from Russia -Fought against Russia and exposed the weakness of its army |
| Vladimir Putin | -leader of Russia after Yeltsin resigned -vowed to give Russia a more assertive central power |
| Lech Walesa and Solidarity | -solidarity coalition was the newly elected group to form a new government -First polish president after the USSR crumbled |
| Vaclav Havel | -president of Czechoslovakia after the fall of its communist government. -influential spokesman for democracy in western europe |
| Czech Republic and Slovakia | -ethnic divisions in Czechoslovakia led to disagreement -solved by a peaceful division into the Czech Republic and Slovakia |
| France's Francois Mitterrand | -socialist president of France -focused on economic difficulties, but mostly failed |
| the European Union/EU | -updated version of the League of Nations -included USA and was successful enough to still be around today |
| Ronald Reagan and the Cold War | -republican US president increasing military size and cutting taxes and budgets -tripled government debt |
| George H. W. Bush and the "New World Order" | -Bush's view of future peaceful interactions across the world -optimistic view of end of cold war |
| Baader-Meinhof gang/Red Army Faction | -terrorist group in Germany -sought to bring down capialism |
| the "evil empire" | |
| Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)/"Star Wars" |
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