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2. Beginning in 1985, he attempted to reform the Soviet Union

3. Mikhail Gorbachev

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

5. Lech Walesa

6. This German chancellor led out in the reunification of Germany

7. Helmut Khol

8. In 1991, he became president of the Russian Republic

9. Boris Yeltsin

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

11. Zhou Enlai

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

13. The Berlin Wall

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

15. Chechnya

16. This Soviet republic declared independence in 1990

17. Lithuania

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

19. Tiananmen Square

20. In 1997, Great Britain returned this wealthy colony to China

21. Hong Kong

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

23. Ronald Reagan

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

25. Germany

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

27. Romania

28. Deng Xiaoping sought to improve the Chinese economy with these measures

29. The Four Modernizations

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

31. Shock system

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

33. glasnost

34. Gorbachev’s plan to restructure the Soviet economy

35. perestroika

36. The Polish labor union which became a political force for change

37. Solidarity

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

39. Ethnic cleansing

40. The ruling committee of the Soviet communist party

41. Politburo

42. In 1993, Czechoslovakia split into these two countries

43. Slovakia and the Czech Republic

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

45. To improve communism

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

47. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

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

49. playwright

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

51. The Soviet Union