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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.