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| leader of Soviet Union in March 1985. Educated by Khruschev's reforms; decline in standard of living leads him to desire radical reforms like perestroika then added glasnost |
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| United States liberating Kuwait in 1991 after Iraq invaded; Islam became angry with the United States |
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| Soviet Union collapsed;United States became the strongest nation; Europe underwent many revolutionary upheavals |
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| Soviet leader from 1964-1982. entered under Stalin, after Khrushchev overthrow. less reform. heavy industry surpass US despite overall industrial decline; created the right of the Soviet Union to intervene in socialism |
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| means "restructuring"; one of Gorbachev's radical reforms means "openness" |
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| Commonwealth of Independent States |
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| split of the Soviet Union into Soviet Republics;, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, etc.; occurred in 1991 |
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| After helping to stop attempted coup d'etat by communist hardliners in 1991 after Soviet Union collapsed, he went on to become 1st president of the new non-communist Russia; introduced free market economy but increased crimes lead many to support former Communism |
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| After helping to stop attempted coup d'etat by communist hardliners in 1991 after Soviet Union collapsed, he went on to become 1st president of the new non-communist Russia; introduced free market economy but increased crimes lead many to support former Communism |
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| After helping to stop attempted coup d'etat by communist hardliners in 1991 after Soviet Union collapsed, he went on to become 1st president of the new non-communist Russia; introduced free market economy but increased crimes lead many to support former Communism |
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| Founder of Solidarity labor union in Poland, helped Poland become 1st Soviet satellite country to break w/ the USSR |
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| playwright who helped lead "velvet Rev" in Czech, 1st freely elected president of Czech after Husak resigned & 1st prez of Czech Republic |
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| Czech Republic and Slovakia |
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| were ruined up by the non-communist rule; on January 1, 1993 Czechoslovakia split; was the first leader of the Czech Republic |
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| East German who succeeded Ulbricht & used Stasi; prosperity & repression give East Germany stability |
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| Serbian nationalist who ordered "ethnic cleansing" of Bosnia and Kosovo & was leader of Serbian national party |
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| independent Yugoslavian provinces where ethnic and political issues occurred in the 1990's |
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| xecutive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union. |
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| Willy Brandt's "opening to the East"; received a nobel prize in1972 |
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| Willy Brandt's "opening to the East"; received a nobel prize in1972 |
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| Willy Brandt's "opening to the East"; received a nobel prize in1972 |
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| chancellor of West Germany in 1982;the Free Democrats joined with his Christian Democratic Union |
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| Britain's 1st female Prime Minister & known for conservative policies; ; anti-inflationary measures, Falklands War, poll tax;ended inflation, restricted union power, limited social welfare |
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| The policies of monetarism, privatization, and self-help promoted by Margaret Thatcher |
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| An armed conflict between Britain and Argentina in 1982. |
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| An armed conflict between Britain and Argentina in 1982. |
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| An armed conflict between Britain and Argentina in 1982. |
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| British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 |
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| French statesman and president of France from 1981 to 1985 |
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| the Red Brigades and the Mafia |
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| Marxist-Leninist organisation, based in Italy, which was responsible for numerous violent incidents, assassinations, and robberies |
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| political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. |
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| Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. |
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| Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers |
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| the school of economic theory that stresses the costs of production as a means of stimulating the economy |
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| the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984. |
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| Irish republican revolutionary military organisation. It was descended from the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916 |
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| A complex of buildings in New York City featuring twin towers 110 stories high. The towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack on September 11th 2001 |
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| A person with temporary permission to work in another country, esp. in Germany. |
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| Political parties stressing environmental protection |
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| A development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression |
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| A late 20th-century style in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism. |
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| 1950s trends in art that used simple, typically massive, forms. |
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| designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1960s |
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| Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for someone named Godot but he never comes |
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| A literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative or technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy. |
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| a philosophical attitude associated especially with Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, and Sartre, and opposed to rationalism and empiricism, that stresses the individual's unique position as a self-determining agent responsible for the authenticity of his or her choices. |
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| Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre |
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| French existentialists throughout the twentieth century. |
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| Popes John XXIII and John Paul II |
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| Two of the most influential figures throughout the papacy in the 20th century. |
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| What I am using to write these notes... Innovated the World's technological stage |
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| Elvis Presley, Beatles, and MTV |
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| Music figures that show the popularity, evolution, and impact of music in 20th century society. |
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| Marshall McLuhan’s “global village” |
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| Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist.McLuhan is known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and "the global village" and predicted the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented |
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| Marshall McLuhan’s “global village” |
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| Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist.McLuhan is known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and "the global village" and predicted the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented |
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| legally constituted organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any form of government. |
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| The Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the Helsinki Final Ac |
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| applied to the Soviet Union especially by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities |
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