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-Croatian archbishop and Cardinal
-Supported the Independent State of Croatia before WWII |
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| -Full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party |
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| -The theory that Germany and German speaking lands have followed their own path through history, apart from the rest of Europe |
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| German Democratic Republic (GDR) |
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| Federal Republic of Germany |
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-North Atlantic Treaty Organization
-States that if one nation in NATO is attacked, they're all attacked |
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-German Communist politician
-played central role in developing East Germany |
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-Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death
-much more liberal than Stalin
-wanted Destalinization |
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| Nikita Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" |
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| -A speech denouncing Stalinism in an attempt to bring the Soviet Union closer to Leninism |
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-counterpart to NATO
-military alliance between Central and Eastern European Communist states |
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| -Polish Communist leader and Soviet ally that led Poland after WWII |
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-Polish Communist leader
-Took over after Bierut
-forced to resign after he ordered the massacre of dozens of shipyard workers |
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-served as Hungarian Prime Minister for a short period following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
-Became anti-Soviet |
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| -Communist leader of Hungary from 1956-1988 |
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-Slovak politician
-Breif leader of Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring
-Famous for wanted Communist reform |
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| "Socialism with a Human Face" |
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-program announced by Alexander Dubcek in Czechoslovakia
-process of mild democracy and political liberalization that allowed the Communists to keep power |
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| -period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia |
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| -Czech student that protested by lighting himself on fire |
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| Normalization (Czechoslovakia) |
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| -name commonly given to the period 1969 to about 1987. It was characterized by initial restoration of the conditions prevailing before the reform period led by Alexander Dubček |
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-counterpart to the Truman Doctrine
-stated that capitalist pressures and threats to one socialist nation was a threat to all socialist nations |
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-Communist leader of Romania from 1948-1965
-against Destalinization |
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-major diplomatic conflict between the Soviet Union and China
-over Communist ideologies and national interests |
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-"Council of Economic Mutual Assistance"
-Economic counterpart to the Warsaw Pact |
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| -Leader of Communist Romania from 1965 until his overthrow and execution in 1989 |
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| -derogatory term in meaning favoring someone because of their relationship to you rather than their abilities |
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| -secret police force of Communist Romania |
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| -Communist leader of Bulgaria |
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| -Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister executed in Show trial |
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-Defense and Interior Prime Minister of Albania
-Executed for being pro-Tito |
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-Communist leader of Albania from the end of WWII until his death in 1985
-He was pro-Stalin |
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| -Russian term referring to the very elite class of Soviet Union Party Members |
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| -system where the employees themselves make all of the decisions rather than have a supervisor |
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| "Withering away of the state" |
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| -the theoretical period after a Socialist revolution in which the Vanguard slowly gives up power to the people |
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| -Marxist humanist movement in Zagreb and Belgrade |
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| Workers' Defense Committee (KOR) |
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| -a Polish civil society group that emerged under communist rule to give aid to prisoners detained after labor strikes |
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| -pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005 |
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-Polish Trade Union Federation
-First major anti-communist organization
-Solidarity's influence led to the intensification and spread of anti-communist ideals and movements throughout the countries of the Eastern Bloc, weakening their communist governments |
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-Polish political and military leader in the 1980's
-involved in plot against Gomulka |
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-First President of the Czech Republic
-anti-totalitarian that published Charter 77 |
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-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe between US, Canada, USSR, and other European countries
-participating states agreed to recognize basic human rights |
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| The Plastic People of the Universe |
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| -psychadelic rock band that became the symbolic center of the Czech underground |
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-"The Power of the Powerless"
-States people live lies and stand for ideals they dont agree with or understand because that is the communist way of life |
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| -notion used to describe the Soviet Union after Stalin's death |
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| -Czech petition signed by over 2000 czechs -written by Vaclav Havel critcizing the government for failing to implement the basic civil rights guaranteed to the people by the Helsinki Accords and the Czech constitution |
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-artistic direct of the Plastic People of the Universe
-later the organizer of the Czech underground |
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| -the copying and distributing of banned literature and media in Soviet bloc countries |
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-longterm Communist leader of Czechoslovakia in 70s and 80s
-his rule known as period of Normalization |
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-final leader of the Soviet Union
-very reformist, essentially ended the Cold War but also ended the Communists reign in the Soviet Union |
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-Gorbachev's policy of openness to pressure conservatives in the Communist party
-promoted openness, participation, and debate within the Party |
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-Gorbachev's policy in restructuring the Soviet economy
-essentially aimed to open up the Soviet Union's economy |
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| -In Warsaw, goverment initiated talks with the Solidarity trade group in an attempt to diffuse social unrest |
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-political party in Czechoslovakia following the Velvet Revolution
-goal was to unify all anti-totalitarian groups against the Communists in the 1990 elections |
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| -In Slovakia, this corresponded with Civic Forum |
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| -Gorbachev joking used this term to describe the Soviet Union's policy of letting its neighboring nations determine their own internal affairs |
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