Section 1: Decline of the Soviet Union
Vocabulary:
Detente: A phase of relaxed tensions and improves relations between two adversaries.
Dissident: A person who speaks out against the regime in power.
Perestroika: Mikhail Gorbachev's plan to reform the Soviet Union by restructuring its economy.
Section 2: Eastern Europe
Vocabulary:
Ethnic cleansing: A policy of killing or forcibly removing an ethnic group from its lands; used by the Serbs against the Muslim Minority in Bosnia.
Autonomous: Self governing.
Section 3: Europe and North America
Thatcherism: The economic policy of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which limited social welfare and restricted union power.
Budget deficit: The state that exists when a government spends more than it collects in revenues.