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Black Death

-similar to bird flu
-rats, poor sanitation, airborne
-feels like flu, enlarged lymph nodes, hysteria, purple, black color
-new medical research, cleanup

Feudalism

government based on land ownership
(went away after the black death)

Renaissance

"rebirth" marked the transition from Dark Ages to a time with high emphasis on art, sciences and architecture

Humanism

Petrach

Reformation

-interpret bible for yourself
-Martin Luther 95 theses criticized the practice of selling indulgences
-John Calvin similar except predestination

Reformation

took Catholic church and allowed a reformation that created division, religion, denominations to follow

Industrial Revolution

changes in manufacturing, mining, and transport had major effects on socioeconomic and cultural conditions throughout the word

NATO

North Atlantic Trade Organization
-1949 alliance of western nations
-policy of deterrence(now humanitarian and political)

EU

roles/goals:single market: economic political and culture intergration

EU Council: propose, pass, execute laws

Parliament
European Commission
Prez: Jean-Claude Juncler

V. Lennin

Marxism: Bolsheviks- become communists
Russian Revolution 1917
1922- USSR is born
Trotsky v. Stalin: Lenin was exiled to Siberia
1924- Lenin dies

Joseph Stalin

World War II
Collective Farms
Heavy Industry
Central Planning- 5 yr plan
Police State
Purges- 28 million deported 18 mil labor camps

Nikita Kruschev- Cold War

-de-stalinization
-lands program-use Siberia
-Berlin Wall 1961
-China(stormy) harder disputes
Third World help
Peaceful coexistence avoid total war

Brezhnev

China
Czech- SU ended demonstrations
Afghanistan- civil war, tried to spread Comm.
Improve relations w/West (detente)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Democratic Reforms
Glasnot- open society, gov't people
Perestroika- consumerism
pulls troops out of Afghanistan
Chernobyl 1986

Chernobyl

Ukraine 1986 (Pripyat)
36 hrs to evacuate, 4th reactor explosion
-flawed reactor design
-no proper safety
-personnel not properly trained

Chechnya Today

2003: constitution
2004- Beslan School Incident
2005- Parliamentary elections: United Russia Party over half the seats

TODAY: Chechens still want Independence but part of global terror network

Fall Of Soviet Union

-Dec. 1991: Gorb resigns
-Jan. 1992- SU falls
"Commonwelath of Independent Republics"

Baltic States that got independence

Lithuania, Lativa, Estonia

Modern Russia

2000- Putin
2008- Medvedev
2012- Putin 2.0

U.S/ Russia Issues

- aid organizations expelled
-adoptions halted
-crackdown on protests
Edward Snowden asylum
-Iran nuclear energy
-Syria and Ukraine

Chechnya

fighting with Russia over religion, land and oil
Russia-christian
Chech- muslim
land- wants to own but Russia holding on
oil- Chech has high oil content but Russia doesn't want to loose it

Chechnya

also afraid a domino effect of countries wanting independence
extremist resort to terrorism

War in Chechnya
1994-1996

main battles in Grozny
high death toll: 30,000-100,000

Chechnya Now:

1996- cease fire of war: left republic in ruins
1999- Dagestan incident
2001- Russia allowed Chechnya to b a self governing republic while under Russian rule
2002- terror in Moscow

Ukraine

-country in eastern Europe
-former s.u member has full independence now became independent in 1991
-45 million people support themselves
Kiev- largest city and capital

Syria

civil war w/ Russia
ISIS stationed