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Mikhail Gorbachev
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was a Communist party leader in 1985 that backed perestroika and glasnost policies
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Boris Yeltsin
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he was elected as president of Russia in 1991 but he failed to reverse the economic decline
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Vladimir Putin
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was a elected in 1999 as president of Russia
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Chechnya
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it was mountainous region to the south and it was a province where Muslim separatists were fighting a guerrilla war for independence
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Bureaucracy
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a huge system of officials to manage the economy
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Perestroika
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a government policy that allowed local managers rather than Moscow officials to decide what and how much to produce
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Glasnost
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a government policy that urged people to talk about the government and its inefficient ways
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What happened at the Yalta Conference? |
At the Yalta Conference Germany was divided temporarily into zones of Allied occupation and Stalin guaranteed air and rail corridors to Berlin and Stalin agreed to support setting up the United Nation. |
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Which countries would oversee and occupy Germany? |
USA, Russia, UK and France |
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Why would the Soviet Union seek to expand their influence into Eastern Europe? |
Soviet Union would seek to expand to Eastern Europe because it is flat and they are worried that the Allies would attack though there so they expanded to add a buffer zone |
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What was the Iron Curtain? |
The iron curtain is a metaphor that describes the division between the non communist west and communist countries to the east. |
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What is the Berlin Wall? |
The Berlin Wall is a wall around the city to prevent people from leaving soviet Germany. |
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When did most countries cease to be communist? |
most were around 1991 which is the end of the cold war |
