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Geiger chapter 20 vocabulary
World history
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History
9th Grade
12/14/2012

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Service industries
Definition
included health care, finance, and sales
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Willy Brandt
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West German chancellor who signed treaties with the USSR and Poland
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Helmut kohl
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west German chancellor who brought about reunification
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Ostpolitik
Definition
Eastern Policy
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Konrad Adenauer
Definition
Cancellor who helped build West Germany
following WWII
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Alexander Dubchek
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Leader of Czechslovakia who introduced liberal reforms and was ousted by the soviets
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Josip Tito
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Yugoslavian leader who set up a communist government independent of the Soviet Union
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Lech Walesa
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leader of soliarity union in Poland; eventually elected President of Poland
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Ethnic Cleansing
Definition
serbian policy of removing other ethnic groups in the are they controlled
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Imre Nagy
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Leader of hungary who attempted to leave the soviet blloc but was thwarted by the Soviets
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De-stalinization
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khruschev's policy of freeing political prisoners and easing censorship
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dissidents
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people who speak out against the government
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Lyndon johnson
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president who created medi-care
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perestroika
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gorbachev's policy calling for restructuring of government and the economy
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glasnost
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Gorbechev's policy calling for open-ness in discussing the Soviet Union's problems
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Martin Luther King
Definition
was a leader in the civil rights movement
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Welfare State
Definition
Government takes more responsibility
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St. Lawerence Seaway
Definition
Linked the interiiors of the US and Canada to the Atlantic Ocean
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Quebec
Definition
The canadian province where they want speak French as the national language
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