Main Cold War Flashcards
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| 372739185 | 1989 | This is known as the Year of Miracles; when most countries gained independence from the Soviet Union | 0 | |
| 372739187 | Poland | this country leads the yr. of miracles | 1 | |
| 372739189 | Edward Gierek | Polish Communist who borrowed heavily from Western nations to rebuild the economy which simply led to Poland's great debts | 2 | |
| 372739191 | Solidarity | the workers union that turned into a political party | 3 | |
| 372739193 | Lech Walesa | leader of the polish Solidarity party who was arrested and then later made the polish prez | 4 | |
| 372739195 | the repeal of the Brezhnev Doctrine | this caused the opening up of negotiations between the Polish gov't and Solidarity | 5 | |
| 372739197 | Aleksander Kwanieuski (sp?) | former commy who defeated Walesa in polish presidential elections because of the severe unemployment and popular discontent w/ Walesa | 6 | |
| 372739205 | Vaclav Havel | led a writers rebellion and succeeded Husak and helped bring Czechoslovakian communism down granted amnesty to 300,000 prisoners | 7 | |
| 372739209 | Nicolae Ceaușescu | Romanian dictator went from complete control of his country to uprisings to the betrayal of his army to his trial to his and his wife's execution | 8 | |
| 372739213 | Erich Honeker | East German hardliner who used the secret police as his personal army ruled w/ iron fist for 18 yrs. | 9 | |
| 372739225 | ABM Treaty | most important Detente treaty in which the US and the Soviet Union agreed to limit antiballistic missiles | 10 | |
| 372739226 | SALT I | nothing was actually accomplished in this treaty besides the fact that it was the first arms treaty | 11 | |
| 372739228 | Watergate | scandal that forced Nixon to resign and the end of Detente | 12 | |
| 372739232 | Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan | showed the weakness of the Soviet Union | 13 | |
| 372739234 | Iran Crisis | led to the end of Carter's presidency b/c he led by morals | 14 | |
| 372739236 | SALT II | significant disarmament treaty that could have been a major part of Detente but b/c of Afghanistan Carter pulled out of Senate | 15 | |
| 372739242 | Brezhnev's economic problems | 1. command economy 2. agricultural problems (3. workers didn't work or care) | 16 | |
| 372739244 | "New Thinking" | Gorbachev's willingness to reevaluate the way Soviet foreign policy had always been; helped bring an end to the Cold War | 17 | |
| 372739248 | Perestroika | "restructuring" @ first just reforming the economy then when it was realized that the economy political and social systems were too closely tied together so he ended up reforming them all | 18 | |
| 372739250 | Glasnost | "openness" Gorbachev encouraged the people to have and voice their own opinons about the way the country was run | 19 | |
| 372739254 | Gorbachev and Afghanistan | wanted pro-Soviet regime but it hardened relationships b/t the USSR and the US and it cost too much $ so Gorbachev had to w/draw showing weakness | 20 | |
| 372739256 | Brezhnev Doctrine | it was repealed in 1989 and this brought about the year of miracles | 21 | |
| 372739258 | Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania | The Baltic states | 22 | |
| 372739260 | the Baltic states | seceded from the USSR in 1990 (they were part of the USSR and not Soviet satellites) | 23 | |
| 372739262 | Boris Yeltsin | when the hardliners arrested Gorbachev and tried to seize power he almost single handedly quashed the revolt | 24 | |
| 372739264 | first prez of Russia | Boris Yeltsin | 25 | |
| 372739266 | Dec 25, 1991 the soviet Union was dismantled | this brought an end to the Cold War w/ no shots fired | 26 | |
| 372739268 | Vladimir Putin | current Russian prez ex member of KGB | 27 | |
| 372739270 | Pravda | "the truth" Soviet newspaper | 28 | |
| 372739272 | Chechnya | wanted to separate but the Soviet Union would not allow it but fighting lasted to 2000 and it cost the Soviet Union lots of $ and resources | 29 | |
| 372739274 | Yugoslavia | multinational empire consists of 6 republics and 2 autonomous provinces | 30 | |
| 372739276 | Tito | nonserbian Yugoslav leader led a communist country that was not soviet influenced | 31 | |
| 372739278 | Milosevic | filled the vacuum after the failure of a strong leader to rise after Tito | 32 | |
| 372739280 | Serbian nationalism | the reason why Milosevic remained in power | 33 | |
| 372739282 | June 1991 | Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia | 34 | |
| 372739284 | Croatia | september 1991 the yugoslavian army initiated a full assault on this country in which they gained 1/3 of the property by brutal force | 35 | |
| 372739286 | Dayton Accords | all sides of the Bosnian war met in Ohio and eventually agreed to split Bosnia b/t the Serbs and Muslim Croats | 36 | |
| 372739288 | Kosovo | Serbs believed it to be sacred b/c that is where they were beaten by the ottoman turks | 37 | |
| 372739290 | Thatcher | British labour party prime minister who broke the labor unions | 38 | |
| 372739292 | foreign policy | thatcher's policy that was similar to Regan's | 39 | |
| 372739294 | Falklands war | Argentina tried to seize British colonial islands but the British responded w/ such force that they devastated the Argentian army | 40 | |
| 372739300 | Al Queda | led by bin laden- bombed US embassies, attacked the USS COLE, and 9.11 | 41 | |
| 372739302 | European racist parties | were created b/c of the bitterness of the hard working foreigners taking the jobs of the lazy natives | 42 | |
| 372739304 | Chernobyl | nuclear disaster that made people more aware of environmental issues | 43 |