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WC Ch 34
Soviet Era 1985 to Present
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A huge system of officials used to manage countries and companies. they are often cumbersome and inefficient. | Bureaucracy |
| Gorbachev used this model to attempt to reform the Soviet economy. | Perestroika |
| Gorbachev used this model in an attempt to reform the Soviet Government. | Glasnost |
| Local officials were given more control of the economy and private enterprise was allowed during this attempt to streamline and fix the Soviet economy. | Perestroika |
| The policy where people were encouraged to criticize government waste in an effort to fix the Soviet Government. | Glasnost |
| This man became leader of the USSR in 1985 and attempted to reform the Soviet Union in an effort to save it from itself. | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| An economy with little or no government interference. | Free Market Economy |
| An economy where the government controls most of the important decisions. | Command Economy |
| The year the Soviet Union dissolved into separate republics. | 1991 |
| This man was elected Russian President in 1991. | Boris Yeltsin |
| This republic had a major military clash from Muslim Separatists who used terrorism and violence. | Chechnya |
| Russian Nationalist who used extreme comments in an attempt to take power from Yeltsin. | Vladimir Zhirinovsky |
| This man was elected Russian President in 1999 and has been holding power is some way, shape, or form ever since. | Vladimir Putin |
| The group of Eastern European nations that were controlled, influenced, or allied with the USSR after WW II. | Eastern Bloc/Communist Bloc |
| This post-WW II tension existed between the USSR and its allies and the United States and our allies | Cold War |
| This German city was divided into 4 sections after World War II. | Berlin |
| The USSR and Russia are located on these two continents. | Asia and Europe. |
| Publishing written work secretly and passed around individually to avoid authorities. | Samizdat |
| This propaganda tool was used to glorify socialism and speak the evils of Capitalism. | Socialist Realism |
| This author wrote about his experiences in a forced labor camp during Stalin's reign. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| This Soviet Era leader eased up on censorship of literature. | Khrushchev |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| The Soviet response to NATO. | The Warsaw Pact |
| The official pro-Soviet Military Alliance that consisted of Eastern European Nations. | Warsaw Pact |
| A group of Western European and North American countries that formed a military alliance to combat Soviet threats to their common good. | NATO or North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
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