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General Assembly
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deliberative body in which all member states had an equal vote
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security council
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responsibility to preserve peace; consisted of five great powers which were permanent members and 10 rotating members
five perm: china usa britain france russsia
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secretary general
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a number of international organizations communist parties and bodies use this title for cheif administrative offfice
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baruch plan
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proposal by the united states government to the united nations atomic energy commission about an arms control
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marshal tito
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yugoslavia went its own communist way in 1948 after defying the Cominform
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The Gulag Archipelago
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book based on soviet forced labor and concentration camp system; exemplified the harsh state that the USSR had been in under Stalin
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Konrad Adenauer
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christian democratic leader; wanted to regain germany as a position of international respect
anti-communism, anti-nationalism
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Ostpolitik
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eastern policy launched by prime minister Brandt; encouraged building bridges to soviet union and other parts of eastern europe
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GATT
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general agreement on tarriffs and trade; foundation of postwar global commerce
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boris pasternak
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in 1958, forbidden to accept the nobel prize because his novel dr zhivago stressed individual freedom
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a. solzhenitsyn
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permitted to publish his one day in the life of ivan denisovich which was a depictionof human suffering in forced labor camps
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Leonid Brezhnev
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helped engineer kruschevs downfall, emerged as new soviet leader started detente with the west but then invaded afghanistan
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great patriotic war
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soviet unions portion of the second world war against the allies aggression
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yuri andropov
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leader of the KGB, crushed the prague spring
ruled from 1982-1984
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K. Chenenko
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general secretary of CPSU/ruler of soviet union from 1984-1985 heightened cold war tensions
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ICBM
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developed byt he soviet union in 1958
intercontinental ballistic missile
capable of delivering nuclear warheads all the way to the US
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brezhnev doctrine
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proclaimed soviet right to intervene in any communist country to protect socialism
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perestroika
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drastic modification of the centrally planned command economy by stalin
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glasnost
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openess, the right to voice the need for change, the freedom to criticize the existing system and the willingness to even examine past mistakes
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helmut kohl
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christian democratic chancellor; pressured for the reunification of germany
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charter '77
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organization of intellectuals fromed after the helenski accords of 1975; rallying point for struggle against the dictatorship
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nicolae ceausescu
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dictator in romania, controlled parties and government and had stalin like ambitions, independent in military and foreign affairs but not in trading
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