samizdat def
ostpolitik def
West Germanys improved relations with Eastern Europe
perestroika def
political reconstructing
What year did the revolutions happen?
1989
By firing squad because he used fraud in the government to buy things for himself
Why were people unhappy in the 70s and 80s in russia?
Afghanistan war, Chernobyl disaster, and saw other countries with a lot of food
glasnost def
it means openness in speech
What were the Helsinki accords?
cooperations between 35 countries for political, sovereign, and human rights, and peaceful disputes
What was the result from the US helping Israel?
no more exporting oil
What happened on Bloody Sunday?
British soldiers opened fire on protesters and 13 died
stagflation def
How did Thatcher fix Britain?
They cut taxes on wealthy, encouraged people to invest, trickled down costs, and free trade
What was the SALT treaty
agreement between US and Russia to limit nuclear weapons
West was service industry and East was agriculture work
Dubcheks Reforms?
free speech, decentralized the economy(trickle down),democracy, free travel
Result of Prague spring?
Russia suppressed Dubcheks reforms and took over
detente definition
period of reduced tensions between countries