People
Led South Africa out from under apartheid
Nelson Mandela
the ruling committee of the Communist Party in the USSR
Politburo
site of a massacre of pro-democracy supporters in China
Tiananmen Square
policy used to eliminate a certain group of people
ethnic cleansing
widening gap between rich and poor, heavy pollution
China
First freely elected president of the Russian Federation
Boris Yeltsin
a loose association of former Soviet republics
Commonwealth of Independent States
Former British colony handed over to China in 1997
Hong Kong
complete legal separation of the races in South Africa
apartheid
experienced swift reunification in 1989
Germany
architect of glasnost and perestroika in the USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev
Yugoslavia
The city built by Brazilian dictator Kubitschek
Brasilia
openness to the free flow of ideas and information
glasnost
recently emerged from one-party rule, battles crime and drug trafficking
Mexico
Leader of China who introduced the Four Modernizations
Deng Xiaoping
a Polish labor union that led protest against Communist rule
Solidarity
Central European country that split in half due to ethnic conflict
Czechoslovakia
an abrupt shift from a command economy to a free-market economy
shock therapy
long history of protest against Communist rule, voted out Communist Party in 1989
Hungary
Leader of a Polish union of shipyard workers, became first freely elected president of Poland
Lech Walesa
The main political party in Mexico
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
A region of Nigeria that has been agitating for independence since the 1990s
Biafra
restructuring of the Soviet economy to permit more local decision making
perestroika
oil-rich country plagued by ethnic conflict since peacefully winning independence from Great Britain
Nigeria