10.6c Global Regents vocab

Restructuring the Soviet economy to stimulate growth through free market reforms, invited foreign investors in to Soviet Union

• perestroika
• glasnost
• Solidarity movement

Period in the 1970s during which there was an easing of tensions between the United States and the Sviet Union

• detente
• perestroika
• glasnost

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks- disarmament talks to reduce the threat of nuclear war

• SALT I & II
• detente
• perestroika

1989, East German leaders could no longer count on support of the Soviet Union, they opened the borders between East and West Berlin. The Wall was torn down. 

• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• SALT I & II
• detente

Germany was reunited. West Germans had to pay higher taxes to finance the rebuilding of the impoverished East. Unemployment and social unrest followed, but Germany has regained its position as the dominant economy in Europe.

• German Reunification
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• SALT I & II

Independent trade union movement in Poland that opposed the communist regime led by Lech Walesa

• Solidarity movement
• German Reunification
• Fall of the Berlin Wall

Leader of the Soviet Union, he wanted to end Cold war tensions. He pulled troops out of Afghanistan and he reformed the Soviet government and economy.

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Lech Walesa
• Vladimir Putin

in 1991 Soviet Union dissolved and Yeltsin became the Russian president. He struggled to make the transition from communism to democracy. Food shortages, ethcni issues surfaced, industry and farms privatized

• Boris Yeltsin
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Lech Walesa

In 1999 he succeeded Yeltsin, still dominating Russian politics. He helped rebuild the Russian economy but suppresses dissidents 

• Vladimir Putin
• Boris Yeltsin
• Mikhail Gorbachev

Due to economic hardships, workers organized Solidarity, an independent trade union in Gdansk. They called for political change. Walesa was jailed but in 1989 he became president of Poland. Poland joined NATO.

• Lech Walesa
• Vladimir Putin
• Boris Yeltsin