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| 157030437 | Romania | The only Eastern European country that experienced a bloody revolution in 1989. | |
| 157030438 | Chechnya | Republic that declared idependence from Russia that resulted in bloody civil war | |
| 157030444 | Israel | Homeland for Jews established after the British left Palestine in 1948 | |
| 157030462 | Poland | differed from other Eastern Bloc countries because they had an independent agriculture and a strong church-also first country to elect a non-communist leader | |
| 157030463 | Gorbachev Reforms in USSR | antialcoholism and anticorruption | |
| 157035752 | Privatized companies | businesses that ultimately ended up in the hands of former Soviet managers and bureaucrats | |
| 157035753 | Vladimir Putin | elected president of Russia in 2000 | |
| 157035754 | Terrorism and Civil War | two major ingredients of modern conflicts | |
| 157035755 | Lech Walesa | leader of Solidarity Movement in Poland in the 1980s | |
| 157035756 | Mujahideen | Afghanistan freedom fighters | |
| 157035757 | Maastricht Treaty of 1991 | agreement that resulted in a singel currency for the European Union-caused massive protest marches and general strike in France | |
| 157035758 | Boris Yeltsin | Mayor of Moscow and later president of Russian who saved Gorbachev from coup by hard line communists | |
| 157035759 | Europe's mission in the 21st century | to promote human rights, democracy, and prosperity outside Europe | |
| 157035760 | Gulf War | clearly illlustrated that the USA was the only remaining superpower in the world | |
| 157035761 | Greater Serbia | Milosevic's plan that hastened civil war in Yugoslavia | |
| 157035762 | Srebrenica | locale of slaughter of citizens that brought NATO troops into action against the Bosnian Serbs | |
| 157035763 | Missiles in Cuba | conflict between the USA (Kennedy) and the USSR (Krushchev) | |
| 157035764 | Velvet Revolution | movement that finally drove Soviets out of Czechoslovakia | |
| 157035765 | Paris Accord | brought an end to the cold war and WWII | |
| 356016614 | re-Stalinization | A return to Stalin's more restrictive policies, under Brezhnev's rule. | |
| 356016615 | Great Russians | Nationalistic Russians within the USSR. Hated liberalism and democracy | |
| 356016616 | Gdansk Agreement | The Polish agreement to allow free-trade unions, free speech, freedom of political prisoners, and economic reforms. | |
| 356016617 | Solidarity | Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. | |
| 356016618 | perestroika | A policy of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to revitalize the Soviet economy by opening it up to more free enterprise | |
| 356016619 | glasnost | a Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information | |
| 356016620 | third way | A term used to describe the new and more central left-wing parties of the 1990s, most notably Britain's "New Labour". | |
| 356016621 | Alliance for Germany | Political party in East Germany that called for the unification of East and West Germany | |
| 356016622 | New World Order | the triumph of capitalism over communism, wherein the United States becomes the world's only superpower and therefore its policing force | |
| 356016623 | globalization | The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world. | |
| 356016624 | European Union | international organization comprised of Western European countries to promote free trade among members | |
| 356016625 | baby bust | at the opening to the 21st century, Europe was experiencing falling birthrates that seemed to promise a shrinking and aging population in the future. |
