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149678384Charles de GaulleFrench general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970)0
149678385Marshal TitoYugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war (1892-1980)1
149678386De-Stalinizationsocial process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor2
149678387Imre NagyHungarian Communist Party leader who attempted to end association with the USSR which lead to the 1956 Hungarian revolt.3
149678388Prague Springwas a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union4
149678389"Brezhnev Doctrine"Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need.5
149678390People's Republic of ChinaCommunist government of mainland China; proclaimed in 1949 following military success of Mao Zedong over forces of Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang.6
149678391politburothe chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party7
149678392Five-Years PlanName of each of the series of programs adopted by China development of the national economy in which levels of agricultural and industrial production were determined and administered by ministries of the central government.8
149678393DĂ©tenterelaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China9
149678394SALTnegotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons10
149678395Viet CongCommunist guerrillas in South Vietnam11
149678396VietnamizationPresident Richard Nixons strategy for ending U.S involvement in the vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces12
149678397Talibana group of fundamentalist Muslims who took control of Afghanistan's government in 199613
149678398WatergateNixon's political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice14
149678399GorbachevSoviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)15
149678400uskorenieMikhail Gorbachev tried to implement a policy of "acceleration," or16
149678401perestroikaa policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society17
149678402glasnosta policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems18
149678403KGBformerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia19

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