Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
24 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
perestroika (1034)
|
Imre Nagy (1040)
|
|
|
glasnost (1034)
|
Janos Kadar (1040)
|
|
|
Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago & Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago (1035)
|
Honecker (1042)
|
|
|
Gorbachev (1034)
|
Helmot Kohl (1043)
|
|
|
Chernobyl 1986 (1035)
|
"German Question" (1043)
|
|
|
Congress of People's Deputies (1038)
|
"Prague Spring" 1968 (1043)
|
|
|
Reagan (1038)
|
"Velvet Revolution" (1044)
|
|
|
Lech Walesa (1039)
|
Ceausescu (1045)
|
|
|
General Jaruzelski (1039)
|
Helsinki Accords (1046)
|
|
|
Brezhnev Doctrine (1040)
|
Tiananmen Square (1046)
|
|
|
"500- Day" (1047)
|
economic plan, abandoned,
would have freed prices and mover swiftly to a market economy |
|
|
Boris N. Yeltsen (1047)
|
blunt, outspoken
found allies amongst the democratic reformers (saw him as a populist figure around whom they could rally the public support) elected 1991 president, |
|
|
Putschists (1048)
|
expected coup to be a simple revolution
|
|
|
KGB
|
(1048)
|
|
|
Ukraine, Russia, Bilarus (1049)
|
1991, independence, USSR dissovles, Gorbachev resigns, Yeltsin president of Russia
|
|
|
"robber barons" (1053)
|
developed a system of crony capitalism, shadow of economy run by mafia-type gangsters appeared on the borderlines of the legal system
|
|
|
State Duma (1053)
|
replaced former Congress of People's Deputies, old name deliberately chosen for it's pre-soviet roots.
|
|
|
Chechen Republic ((1053)
|
Caucasus, mainly islamic, demanded independence with fall of Soviet Union - Russia intent on maintaining borderlines and links to central Asia (strategic oil resources)
|
|
|
Vladimir V. Putin (1055)
|
Yeltsin's appointed prime minister - his "chosen successor", reorganized KGB,
|
|
|
Marshal TItio (1058)
|
Yugoslavia
|
|
|
Franjo Tudjman (1050)
|
Croatia
|
|
|
NATO (1061)
|
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
|
|
|
"ethnic cleansing" (1061)
|
Croatia, expelled 200,000 Serbs
|
|
|
Slobodan Milosevic (1050)
|
Serbia
|
