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| The Soviet secret police force |
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| Youngest Soviet leader since Stalin |
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| Nuclear plant; site of 1986 disaster |
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| Soviet citizens faced continuing shortages of this. |
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| consumer goods and/or housing |
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| New 1977 Constitution gave dominance to this political party. |
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| Food was imported from the West when these failed. |
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| Strong Russian leader of the 1960s and 1970s |
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| Soviet foreign minister for 28 years; he became president in 1965 |
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| Region that suffered a devasting earthquake in 1988 |
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| Soviet citizens who protested government violations of the people's rights |
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| Khrushchev's attack on Stalinist policies |
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| Commodity the Soviet Union had to buy from the West in 1963 |
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| Some republics demanded more of this in the 1970s and 1980s. |
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| Critics of the government were sometimes placed in these medical facilities. |
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| Gorbachev's new policy of openness |
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| Innovative feature of Russian elections beginning in 1989 |
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| Brezhnev's successor, former header of the KGB |
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| Term for Russian Jews who were denied permission to emigrate |
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| Gorbachev's new policy of economic reform |
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| Gorbachev promoted a reduced governmental role for this organization |
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| Gorbachev assumed this position only after it was given real power over policy. |
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| Khrushchev had to remove missiles from this country in 1962. |
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| The United States often brought up this domestic Soviet issue. |
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| Direct teletype connection between the United States and U.S.S.R. |
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| A split developed between the Soviet Union and this neighboring communist country in 1961. |
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| The U.S.S.R. was mired in a war with this country from 1979 to 1989. |
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| Soviet leader who met with U.S. President Nixon |
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| Two "northern" nations the U.S.S.R. supported in their wars with southern neighbors |
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| North Korea and North Vietnam |
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| The United States led a boycott against this Moscow event of 1980. |
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| the Moscow (Summer) Olympics |
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| The United States froze exports of this commodity to the U.S.S.R. in 1980. |
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| A spy plane from this country was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960. |
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| Soviet influence expanded to this continent during the 1970s. |
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| Brezhnev's policy of easing tensions with the West |
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| West German firms built a pipeline to carry this from Siberia to Western Europe. |
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| Airborne pollution that spread abroad from the Soviet Union in 1986 |
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| Event in the United States boycotted by the Soviets in 1984 |
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| the Los Angeles (Summer) Olympics |
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| Fighting broke out with this country over a border dispute in 1969. |
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| Détente developed because the Soviet Union needed these two things from the West. |
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| farm products and technology |
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| A Soviet fighter shot down a passenger jetliner from this country in 1983. |
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| Polish organization of trade unions |
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| Founder of the Polish workers' union |
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| Polish workers' strikes began in these workplaces. |
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| East Germany established formal relations with this country in 1974. |
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| East Germany periodically challenged Western access to this city. |
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| Reforming Czech leader of the 1960s |
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| Country that was invaded by Soviet troops after starting reforms in 1968 |
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| Members of this NATO rival became discontented in the 1970s. |
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| Country that established martial law in late 1981 |
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| Polish port city, formerly Danzig, site of workers' strikes in 1980 |
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| Many East Germans left their country in 1989 when their government did this. |
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| All of these were closed in 1967 to make Albania an atheist state. |
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| Romania's repressive leader from 1974 until his execution in 1989 |
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| Communist European country that was not a Soviet satellite when all others were |
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| Term for the Czech uprising of 1968 |
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| East Germany's leader from 1976 to 1989 |
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| Two original members that stopped cooperating with the Warsaw Pact |
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| Long-time Communist party leader of Hungary |
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| According to the Brezhnev Doctrine, the U.S.S.R. could do this to any East European country. |
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| Central Prague site of mass protests in 1989 |
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| First popularly elected leader in Russian history |
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| Gorbachev survived this in August 1991. |
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| Military alliance that dissolved in 1991 |
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| Pieces of this historic German structure became souvenirs when it was torn down in 1989. |
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| Country that East Germany united with in 1990 |
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| West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany) |
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| East European country that broke apart and erupted into war in 1991 |
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| The three northwest republics of the U.S.S.R. that declared independence in 1990-91 |
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| Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania |
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| Group term for the three northwest republics of the U.S.S.R. that declared independence |
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| Startling type of government - started in Poland and spread rapidly through E. Europe in 1989 |
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| Country of 15 republics that dissolved in 1991 |
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| the U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union) |
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| Severe, rising problem that plagued the newly noncommunist economies |
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| Work condition previously unknown in former communist economies |
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| The two new nations formed when Czechoslovakia split peacefully in 1993 |
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| the Czech Republic and Slovakia |
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| Novel event held in most East European countries in 1990 |
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| The Soviet legislature passed power to these entities in 1991. |
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| Breakaway Russian republic that fought for independence in the 1990s |
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| Czechoslovakia's playwright-president, elected in 1990 |
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| "Ethnic cleansing" was carried out by Yugoslavian Serbs against these people. |
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| Croats and/or Slavic Muslims |
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| The two largest countries formed from the former Soviet Union |
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| Thousands fled this country by boat for Italy in 1990. |
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| Country where former Communists overwhelmingly won the first free elections |
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