| A | B |
|---|
| market economy | economy is based on the laws of supply & demand; individuals own means of production |
| coup | a takeover of a government |
| detente | "a relaxing of tensions" between two countries |
| Star Wars | system of weapons to cut off & destroy incoming missiles aimed at the US |
| Taliban | Muslim rebels who wanted a strict Islamic gov't in Afghanistan |
| command economy | gov't control of the means of production |
| perestroika | restructuring of the Soviet Union economy to allow some free enterprise |
| dissidents | people who protested a government's policies |
| glasnost | a policy where Soviet citizens could speak & write w/o fear from the gov't |
