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