Chapter 29 Flashcards
helsinki accords
aimed to improve rlations between west and communist bloc countries
leonid brezhnev
leader of soviet union after khrushev, tried to ease tensions with west, bade brezhnev doctrine saying that soviets could intervene in any country where the communism was not on point, this was after prague spring
vladimir putin
current leader of soviet union
lech walesa
helped with stopping communism in poland, became first democratic president of poland
vaclav havel
helped stop communism in czechooslovakia with velvet revolution, also a playwright.
nicolae ceausescu
communist leader of romania for some time, killed a lot of people.
erich honecker
led east germany communist party, fall from power came with collapse of communism.
slobodan milosevic
leader of serbia for some time, when josip tito died ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia, in bosnia within Yugoslavia there was some serbians as a minority, so Milosevic, who was the leader of serbia, started killing everyone but the serbians in bosina - ethnic cleansing.
kosovo
milosovic tried to take kosovo, but failed so it has partial diplomatic recognition as fo now.
helmut kohl
was leader of west germany, helped unify west and east germany once again.
margaret Thatcher
first british female prime minister, feminist.
Tony Blaier
british prime minister
Francois Mitterand
communist kinda ruler of frandce for soem tiem
OPEC
unfieid petrolium/oil policies internationally, includes a bunch of middle eastern countries.