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| A country that is economically and politically dependent on another country |
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| Mikahil Gorbachev's plan to reform the Soviet Union by restructuring its economy |
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| A person who speaks out against the regime in power |
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| A policy of killing or forcibly removing an ethnic group from its lands; used by the Serbs against the Muslim minority in Bosnia |
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| Idea that, if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall |
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| 1st secretary (president) of Czechoslovakia (elected in Jan. 1968); began reforms (free speech and travel); wanted "socialism with a face"; led to the "Prague Spring" |
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| Poland's leader; solidarity movement-Labor leader |
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| Czechoslovakian playwright leader |
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| Romanian communist hardline-violent revolution |
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| Yugoslavia's strong leader-resisted USSR control |
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| Hungary's leader-declared Hungary and independent country and promised free elections (November 1, 1956) |
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| East Germany leader-hard line communist |
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| 1947-US pledge to give money to countries threatened by communists; Greece in particular |
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| June 1947-US pledge to give $13 billion to European recovery; anyone who asked for money received it |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization-US's military alliance; Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Iceland, and US-later West Germany, Turkey, and Greece |
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| Leader of USSR starting in 1954; began de-Stalinization; pushed out of power in '64 because of mistakes in Cuban Missile Crisis |
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| Takes over in '64 after Krushchev; didn't want reforms-wanted to protect communism around the world |
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| Leader of USSR in 1985; begins "glasnost" policy (openness and disscussion with US) and "perestroika" (restructing the economy-'88 political restructing); becomes 1st and last president of USSR in March 1990 |
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| President of Russian Republic (first); committed to a free market economic hardship |
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| President of Russia (1999/2000) |
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| French Prime Minister-during 4th and 5th republic (50's-60's) |
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| West German leader-'49-'63; helped lead West German economic "miracle" |
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