The Cold War (US vs USSR)

Gorbachev

________ had a difficult time dealing with the nationalist movements with the empire.

Reform movements

________ and revolutions start to break out in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

Marshall Plan

The ________ helped Western European countries to recover rapidly.

USSR

1979- ________ invaded Afghanistan to restore a pro- Soviet government.

Yeltsin

________ stepped down in 1999.

Vladimir Putin

________ elected in 2000.

Boris Yeltsin

________ became Russian President.

Khrushchev

________ builds a wall around W. Berlin.

military power

Superpower: country with ________ and political influence.

Charles de Gaulle

________ was the French president (1890- 1970)

Domino Theory

________- if communists are successful in Vietnam than other countries in Asia would fall (like dominoes) to communism as well.

Mikhail Gorbachev

________ came to power in the USSR in 1985.

modern welfare state

Created a(n) ________- a state in which the government takes responsibility for providing citizens with services and a minimal standard of living.

Yeltsin

________ introduced a free market economy.

USSR

Aid is available to the ________ and its satellite states (countries economically and politically dependent on another country)