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| The doctrine enunciated by Leonid Brezhnev that the soviet union had a right to intervene if socialism was threatened in another socialist state (justification for invasion of Czechoslovakia) |
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| President of the USSR - era of Perstroika and glasnost until the collapse of the soviet union |
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| Program of economic/political reform in USSR, decentralized market, open elections, & adoption of freemarket policies |
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| Social policy, Media encouraged to express open opinion, new period of detente, open society through free speech and political liberty while ending party censorship |
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| 1st president of the Russian Federation, reign marked by corruption, economic collapse due to induction of freemarket, and political and social problems |
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| Former member of KGB, became Russian president in 2000, opposed american anti missile defense system, but cooperated in the fight against terrorism |
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| Polish communist leader - socialist, brought a certain stability to Poland, but reign was marked by censorship and persecution |
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| Polish independent trade union federation posed threat to polish government, and eventually became government leader. demanded trade unions, right to strike, freedom of speech, release of political prisoners, and economic reforms |
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| Cofounder of solidarity, became president of Poland in 1990. Trade union and human rights activist |
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| Hungarian political communist leader, economic reforms, socialism w/ a bit of capitalism, began relations w/ west, |
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| Overthrown and assassinated in Romania. Was communist leader. Had led Romania astry in economics and domestic/foreign policy. |
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| Playwright of czechoslovakia becomes president following the velvet revolution. Czech becomes stable and prosperous. |
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| President of yugoslavia, began nationalistic central control, led to provinces declaring independence, ethnic cleansing in Serbia |
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| Bombed by NATO - led by us in order to stop the ethnic cleansing taking place in the Yugoslavia province |
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| West German chancellor who began to improve relations w/ eastern europe and east germany with ostpolitik |
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| Chancellor of west Germany, contributed to economic boom and the reunification of germany - economic woes of reunification led to a new social democratic leader |
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| an underground nationalist organization formed to work for Irish independence from Britain, declared illeagal in 1936 but continued efforts and staged dramatic terrorist acts |
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| Became prime minister of britain, broke the power of labour unions, curbed inflation, and began hardline policy against communism |
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| Fought btwn Great Britain and argentina over the Falklands islands, lasted 74 days and ended in argentinen surrender and preservation of British control |
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| Labour party prime minister of Britain, formed coalition against terrorism w/ U.S |
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| Socialist president of France, froze prices and wages, expanded social benefits, nationalization of industry - led to disapproval of socialism |
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| President of France, sending back of illegal immigrants in France |
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| An attempt by communists in Europe to broaden the party's appeal by abandoning marxist theology, supported by italian communists |
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| Britain, Ireland, and Denmark formed with goal of integrating European economies, Grew to 370 million people and became the worlds largest trading entity |
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| Created the European union and established the single european currency- the euro |
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| Creation of a true economic and monetary union, goals of a common currency and common agricultural policy |
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| A combination of high employment and high inflation - serious economic problem in 1970 U.S |
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| Organization of petroleum exporting countries - put an embargo on oil and prices quadrupled caused inflation in oil dependent US |
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| Leader of the Iranian government, took 53 americans hostage |
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| Antiballistic Missile Treaty |
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| Soviets and US agree to limit antiballistic missiles - US aims of equivalent nuclear power |
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| project to create a space shield that could destroy incoming missiles |
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| agreement btwn US and Gorbachev to eliminate intermediate nuclear weapons to dampen the arms race - part of Gorbachev's new thinking lessening of tensions |
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| Iraq occupies Kuwait - international force led by US liberates Kuwait, marked first cooperation between US and soviets following the cold war |
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| The raise in awareness of how one nations actions can affect the world - led to movements like environmental and nonviolence. One nations solution = another's problem |
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