Unit 19 Euro
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| Prague Spring | Czech revolt against against hard-line communist rule in 1968; crushed by Soviets
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| re-Stalinization | Soviet crack-down on eastern Europe and Soviet society under Leonid Brezhnev
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| Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | Soviet writer exiled for writing One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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| Brezhnev Doctrine | said the Soviets would intervene in eastern Europe to put down attempts at reform or revolution
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| Leonid Brezhnev | Soviet leader from 1964 to 1982 who introduced re-Stalinization
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| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet leader who came to power in 1985 and introduced reforms
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| perestroika | "restructuring" of the Soviet economy; limited free market reforms
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| glasnost | "openess" or freedom of speech
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| Pope John Paul II | Polish pope who spoke out against communism and secretly worked for its downfall
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| Solidarity | Polish labor union that demanded free trade unions, freedom of speech, economic reforms, release of political prisoners
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| Lech Walesa | leader of major Polish labor union; later became 1st non-communist leader of postwar Poland
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| Hungary | 1st country to dismantle "iron curtain"
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| Vaclav Havel | Czech intellectual who became 1st non-communist President of Czechoslovkia in postwar era
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| Velvet Revolution | name for the dissolution of Czech communist party; applied to most other eastern European revolutions in 1989
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| Romania | only country in which 1989 revolutions were violent
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| Boris Yeltsin | Former Communist who embraced democracy and Russian nationalism; President of Russia after communism's collapse
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| Helmut Kohl | West German Christian Democratic leader who led German reunification
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| Paris Accords | agreement that essentially ended Cold War in 1990 and recognized existing European borders
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| Chechnya | Islamic territory that seeks to break away from Russia
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| Slobodan Milosevic | Serb leader implicated in the "ethnic cleansing" of Croats and Bosnians in 1993 Yugoslav Civil War
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| Dayton Accords | ended Yugoslav Civil War; gave 51% of Bosnia to Bosnians and 49% to Serbs
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| Irish Republican Army | terrorist group that seeks to separate Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom
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| ETA | Basque terrorist group that seeks to separate Basque country from Spain and France
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| Baader Meinhof Gang | left-wing terrorist group in West Germany; sought to start communist revolution in 1970s
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| Maastricht Treaty | created the European Union and called for the creation of the Euro
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| Euro | common currency of most EU states
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