STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 30:

 

THE WEST FACES THE FIRST CENTURY, 1989 TO THE PRESENT

 

 

 

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?