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Changes in the Communist World
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10th Grade
04/11/2007

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The Soviet secret police force
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the KGB
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Youngest Soviet leader since Stalin
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Nuclear plant; site of 1986 disaster
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Chernobyl
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Soviet citizens faced continuing shortages of this.
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consumer goods and/or housing
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New 1977 Constitution gave dominance to this political party.
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the Communist Party
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Food was imported from the West when these failed.
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harvests
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Strong Russian leader of the 1960s and 1970s
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Soviet foreign minister for 28 years; he became president in 1965
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Andrei Gromyko
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Region that suffered a devasting earthquake in 1988
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Armenia
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Soviet citizens who protested government violations of the people's rights
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dissidents
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Khrushchev's attack on Stalinist policies
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de-Stalinization
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Commodity the Soviet Union had to buy from the West in 1963
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wheat (grain)
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Some republics demanded more of this in the 1970s and 1980s.
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local control
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Critics of the government were sometimes placed in these medical facilities.
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mental hospitals
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Gorbachev's new policy of openness
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glasnost
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Innovative feature of Russian elections beginning in 1989
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contested elections
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Brezhnev's successor, former header of the KGB
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Yuri Andropov
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Term for Russian Jews who were denied permission to emigrate
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refusniks
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Gorbachev's new policy of economic reform
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perestroika
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Gorbachev promoted a reduced governmental role for this organization
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the Communist Party
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Gorbachev assumed this position only after it was given real power over policy.
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president
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Khrushchev had to remove missiles from this country in 1962.
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Cuba
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The United States often brought up this domestic Soviet issue.
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human rights
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Direct teletype connection between the United States and U.S.S.R.
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the hot line
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A split developed between the Soviet Union and this neighboring communist country in 1961.
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China
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The U.S.S.R. was mired in a war with this country from 1979 to 1989.
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Afghanistan
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Soviet leader who met with U.S. President Nixon
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Two "northern" nations the U.S.S.R. supported in their wars with southern neighbors
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North Korea and North Vietnam
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The United States led a boycott against this Moscow event of 1980.
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the Moscow (Summer) Olympics
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The United States froze exports of this commodity to the U.S.S.R. in 1980.
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grain
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A spy plane from this country was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960.
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the United States
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Soviet influence expanded to this continent during the 1970s.
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Africa
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Brezhnev's policy of easing tensions with the West
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détente
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West German firms built a pipeline to carry this from Siberia to Western Europe.
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natural gas
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Airborne pollution that spread abroad from the Soviet Union in 1986
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radiation
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Event in the United States boycotted by the Soviets in 1984
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the Los Angeles (Summer) Olympics
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Fighting broke out with this country over a border dispute in 1969.
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China
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Détente developed because the Soviet Union needed these two things from the West.
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farm products and technology
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A Soviet fighter shot down a passenger jetliner from this country in 1983.
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South Korea
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Polish organization of trade unions
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Solidarity
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Founder of the Polish workers' union
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Lech Walesa
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Polish workers' strikes began in these workplaces.
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shipyards
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East Germany established formal relations with this country in 1974.
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West Germany
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East Germany periodically challenged Western access to this city.
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Berlin
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Reforming Czech leader of the 1960s
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Alexander Dub?ek
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Country that was invaded by Soviet troops after starting reforms in 1968
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Czechoslovakia
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Members of this NATO rival became discontented in the 1970s.
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the Warsaw Pact
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Country that established martial law in late 1981
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Poland
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Polish port city, formerly Danzig, site of workers' strikes in 1980
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Gdansk
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Many East Germans left their country in 1989 when their government did this.
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opened its border
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All of these were closed in 1967 to make Albania an atheist state.
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churches and mosques
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Romania's repressive leader from 1974 until his execution in 1989
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Nicolae Ceausescu
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Communist European country that was not a Soviet satellite when all others were
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Yugoslavia
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Term for the Czech uprising of 1968
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the Prague Spring
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East Germany's leader from 1976 to 1989
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Erich Honecker
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Two original members that stopped cooperating with the Warsaw Pact
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Romania and Albania
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Long-time Communist party leader of Hungary
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Janos Kadar
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According to the Brezhnev Doctrine, the U.S.S.R. could do this to any East European country.
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invade it
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Central Prague site of mass protests in 1989
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Wenceslas Square
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First popularly elected leader in Russian history
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Boris Yeltsin
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Gorbachev survived this in August 1991.
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an attempted coup
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Military alliance that dissolved in 1991
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the Warsaw Pact
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Pieces of this historic German structure became souvenirs when it was torn down in 1989.
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the Berlin Wall
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Country that East Germany united with in 1990
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West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany)
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East European country that broke apart and erupted into war in 1991
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Yugoslavia
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The three northwest republics of the U.S.S.R. that declared independence in 1990-91
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Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
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Group term for the three northwest republics of the U.S.S.R. that declared independence
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the Baltic republics
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Startling type of government - started in Poland and spread rapidly through E. Europe in 1989
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noncommunist government
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Country of 15 republics that dissolved in 1991
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the U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union)
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Severe, rising problem that plagued the newly noncommunist economies
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inflation
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Work condition previously unknown in former communist economies
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unemployment
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The two new nations formed when Czechoslovakia split peacefully in 1993
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the Czech Republic and Slovakia
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Novel event held in most East European countries in 1990
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free elections
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The Soviet legislature passed power to these entities in 1991.
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the republics
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Breakaway Russian republic that fought for independence in the 1990s
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Chechnya
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Czechoslovakia's playwright-president, elected in 1990
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Vaclav Havel
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"Ethnic cleansing" was carried out by Yugoslavian Serbs against these people.
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Croats and/or Slavic Muslims
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The two largest countries formed from the former Soviet Union
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Russia and Kazakhstan
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Thousands fled this country by boat for Italy in 1990.
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Albania
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Country where former Communists overwhelmingly won the first free elections
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Romania
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