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Chapter 31
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10th Grade
04/24/2011

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Term
Baby Bust
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At the opening to the 21st century, Europe was experiencing falling birthrates that seemed to promise a shrinking and again population in the future.
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European Union
Definition
The new name as of 1993 for the European Community.
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Gdansk Agreement
Definition
A working class revolt in the Lenin shipyards of Gdansk.
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Great Russians
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Political leaders whom of which credited themselves with the unification of Germany.
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KLA
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Formed in 1998 by frustrated Kosovar militants who sought to fight for their independence.
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Maastricht Treaty
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A treaty in 1991 that set strict financial criteria for joining the proposed monetary union, with it single currency and set 1999 as the start date for its establishment.
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"New World Order"
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President Bush's vision on the cooperativeness of the US and the UN.
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Paris Accord
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A general peace treaty that brought an end to WWII and the cold war that followed.
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Re-Stalinization
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Referring to the installation of a dictatorship in Russia that was collective.
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Shock Therapy
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The Solidarity-led governments radical take on economic affairs that were designed to make a clean break with states planning.
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Solidarity
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Led by Lech Walesa, this group of workers organized their free and democratic trade union.
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Velvet Revoltion
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The moment when communism died in 1989 with an ousting of Communist bosses in only ten days.
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