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Beginning in 1985, he attempted to reform the Soviet Union

Mikhail Gorbachev

He led a Polish labor union and went on to become president of that country.

Lech Walesa

This German chancellor led out in the reunification of Germany

Helmut Khol

In 1991, he became president of the Russian Republic

Boris Yeltsin

The Chinese leader who began to open China to the rest of the world

Zhou Enlai

On November 9, 1989, this symbol of Cold War division was opened for people to freely cross

The Berlin Wall

Since 1991, Russia has dealt with violence in this breakaway region

Chechnya

This Soviet republic declared independence in 1990

Lithuania

Chinese troops fired on unarmed student demonstrators in this public space in the heart of Beijing

Tiananmen Square

In 1997, Great Britain returned this wealthy colony to China

Hong Kong

In 1987, Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with this U.S. president

Ronald Reagan

Poor quality goods, a decaying infrastructure and high costs added to the problems involved in reuniting this country

Germany

This country experienced a bloody overthrow of communism, as Nicolae Ceausescu used force in an attempt to stay in power

Romania

Deng Xiaoping sought to improve the Chinese economy with these measures

The Four Modernizations

Boris Yeltsin adopted this plan to create a free-market economy in Russia

Shock system

Gorbachev’s policy of creating a more open society in the Soviet Union

glasnost

Gorbachev’s plan to restructure the Soviet economy

perestroika

The Polish labor union which became a political force for change

Solidarity

Serbs in Yugoslavia used this policy to rid Bosnia of its Muslim population

Ethnic cleansing

The ruling committee of the Soviet communist party

Politburo

In 1993, Czechoslovakia split into these two countries

Slovakia and the Czech Republic

The goal of changes in the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s

To improve communism

These three Baltic republics declared their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

The profession of Vaclav Havel, who was elected president of Czechoslovakia in 1989

playwright

In 1991, this country experienced a coup by hard-line communist leaders who feared losing power

The Soviet Union