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6. The ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas. Warsaw Pact nations on the east
side and the NATO nations on the west and south.
9. Countries that remained non-aligned or not moving at all with either the first or second world.
10. Conservatives who opposed reform
12. President Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawal of
American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces.
13. A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard
Nixon.
14. A nation that appears to be sovereign, but is actually under the control of another nation.
17. Countries that are democratic and capitalistic.
18. A Polish labor union that during the 1980’s became the main force of opposition to Communist rule in Poland.
19. A policy of murder and other acts of brutality by which Serbs hoped to eliminate Bosnia’s Muslim population after
the breakup of Yugoslavia.
21. An economic program implemented in Russia by Boris Yeltsin in the 1990’s, involving an abrupt shift from a
command economy to a free-market economy.
22. a heated competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, as each side tried to match or better the
other's accomplishments in exploring outer space
24. Countries that are Communist
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1. A 1966-1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and
workers in which all were equal.
2. A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression
3. The partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country, in order to isolate it.
4. A restructuring of the Soviet economy to permit more local decision making, begun by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985
5. Nations An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the
world.
7. The independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the US and the Soviet
Union.
8. A Soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information, introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev
11. The idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations would also fall under Communist control.
13. Khrushchev’s policy of eliminating all memory of Joseph Stalin and his programs in the Soviet Union.
15. A policy, proposed by the United States in 1899, under which all nations would have equal opportunities to trade
in China.
16. Rebel groups in Nicaragua that opposed the FSLN in the 1970’s
20. In Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together.
22. A state with a leading position in the international system and the ability to influence events and its own
interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests.
23. The ruling committee of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union