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6263163701Mikhail GorbachevU.S.S.R premier after 1985; renewed attacks on Stalinism; urged reduction in nuclear armament; proclaimed policies of glasnost and perestroika0
6263163702glasnostPolicy of openness or political liberation in Soviet Union put forward by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s1
6263163703perestroikaPolicy of Mikhail Gorbachev calling for economic restructuring in the U.S.S.R. in the late 1980s; more leeway for private ownership and decentralized control in industry and agriculture2
6263163704Berlin Wall3
6263163705German reunification4
6263163706Boris YeltsinRussian leader who stood up to coup attempt in 1991 that would have displaced Gorbachev; president of the Russian republic following dissolution of Soviet Union5
6263163707Commonwealth of Independent States6
6263163708Chechnya7
6263163709Vladimir Putin8
6263163710Second US-Iraq War9
6263163711Hugo Chavez10
6263163712Yugoslavia11
6263163713Bosnia12
6263163714Kosovo13
6263163715Saddam Hussein14
6263163716First US-Iraq War1991 war led by United States and various European and Middle Eastern allies, against Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. The war led to Iraqi withdrawal and a long confrontation with Iraq about armaments and political regime15
6263163717Rwanda16
6263163718Hutu17
6263163719Tutsi18
6263163720"boy soldiers"19
6263163721European Union20
6263163722euro21
6263163723Somalia22
6263163724September 11, 200123
6263163725"War on Terror"24
6263163726Al Qaeda25

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