TERMS, PEOPLE, AND EVENTS

Imre Pozgay Berlin Wall Solidarity

Gdansk Accords Vaclav Havel Euro

Irish Republican Army terrorism Red Brigades

Slabodan Milosevic “ethnic cleansing” Dayton Peace Accords

“velvet revolution” Ronald Reagan Chechens

Yuri Gagarin Sputnik Robert Schuman

Sergei Krikalev Red Army Faction Aldo Moro

Single European Act Wojciech Jaruzelski Lech Walesa

State Council Bill Clinton Glasnost

Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin

Jean Monnet Nikole Ceaucescu

Yuri Gagarin Perestoika

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Treaty on the European Union

European Free Trade Area European Economic Area

European Economic Community

Organization of Oil Producing Countries

KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

Israel Arctic Circle Azerbaijan

German Democratic Republic German Federal Republic Gdansk

Palestine Srebenica Khazakhstan

European Community Grozny Kosovo

Croatia Siberia Lebanon

Chechnya Belarus Armenia

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

1. How were the Russian Revolution(s) of 1917 and the "velvet revolutions" of 1989 alike? In what ways were they different?

2. Does terrorism really work? Have terrorists ever succeeded in achieving their political, economic, or social objectives? Why then does terrorism seem to be worsening?

3. Why do portions of eastern Europe (including the former USSR) seem to be moving away from cooperation and union while Western Europe is moving toward greater economic and political cooperation?

4. Why did communism fall so quickly and easily throughout Eastern Europe in

1989?