| A | B |
|---|
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Former USSR leader; responsible for Glasnost, Perestroika |
| Glasnost | "openness" - let in Western ideas, some civil rights |
| Perestroika | Gorbachev's economic plan |
| Self-Determination | USSR Satellite states wanted the right to choose their own government and control themselves; wanted to break away from the USSR |
| "Shock Therapy" | Yelstin's economic plan to go straight Communism to Capitalism "quickly", like a bandage |
| Ethic cleaning in Bosnia | Serbs vs. Muslims; Ethic conflict after the collapse of the USSR |
| Vladimir Putin | Former Russian President, now Prime Minister, known for being a strict leader, former KGB, rebuilt Russia |
| Balfour Declaration | 1917; British vow that they would help the Jews secure a homeland |
| Zionism | the belief that the Jews should have a homeland |
| PLO | Palestinian Liberation Organization: group that is trying to gain back lands from Israel for Palestine. Violence is often used to gain worldwide attention |
| Yasir Arafat | leader of PLO. gained worldwide attention for his eye-popping incidents to gain attention. A player in peace talks in middle east |
| Kemal Ataturk | Leader of Turkey, modernized country |
| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, they regulate and set oil prices |
| Shah Phalvi | "Western leader" of Iran in 50-70s, hard on civil rights, but US backed |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | Religious leader of Iran after the Shah, few women's rights, fundamentalist |
| Islamic Fundamentalism | Hard-Core Muslem way of life. Taking Koran literally, few women's rights |
