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Chapter 20 and 21
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History
10th Grade
04/26/2011

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Satellite State
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A country that is economically and politically dependent on another country
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Perestroika
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Mikahil Gorbachev's plan to reform the Soviet Union by restructuring its economy
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Dissident
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A person who speaks out against the regime in power
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Ethnic Cleansing
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A policy of killing or forcibly removing an ethnic group from its lands; used by the Serbs against the Muslim minority in Bosnia
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Domino Theory
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Idea that, if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall
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Alexander Dubcek
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1st secretary (president) of Czechoslovakia (elected in Jan. 1968); began reforms (free speech and travel); wanted "socialism with a face"; led to the "Prague Spring"
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Lech Walesa
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Poland's leader; solidarity movement-Labor leader
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Vaclav Havel
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Czechoslovakian playwright leader
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Nicolae Ceausecu
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Romanian communist hardline-violent revolution
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Joseph Tito
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Yugoslavia's strong leader-resisted USSR control
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Imre Nagy
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Hungary's leader-declared Hungary and independent country and promised free elections (November 1, 1956)
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Willy Brandt
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West Germany leader
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Erich Honecker
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East Germany leader-hard line communist
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Truman Doctrine
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1947-US pledge to give money to countries threatened by communists; Greece in particular
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Marshall Plan
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June 1947-US pledge to give $13 billion to European recovery; anyone who asked for money received it
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization-US's military alliance; Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Iceland, and US-later West Germany, Turkey, and Greece
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Warsaw Pact
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USSR's military alliance
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Nikita Krushchev
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Leader of USSR starting in 1954; began de-Stalinization; pushed out of power in '64 because of mistakes in Cuban Missile Crisis
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Takes over in '64 after Krushchev; didn't want reforms-wanted to protect communism around the world
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Leader of USSR in 1985; begins "glasnost" policy (openness and disscussion with US) and "perestroika" (restructing the economy-'88 political restructing); becomes 1st and last president of USSR in March 1990
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Boris Yeltsin
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President of Russian Republic (first); committed to a free market economic hardship
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Vladimir Putin
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President of Russia (1999/2000)
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Francois Mitterand
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Leader of France
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Jacques Chirac
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Leader of France
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Margaret Thatcher
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Leader of Great Britain
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Charles DeGaulle
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French Prime Minister-during 4th and 5th republic (50's-60's)
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Adenauer
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West German leader-'49-'63; helped lead West German economic "miracle"
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