| A | B |
|---|
| Mikhail Gorbachev | last President of the Soviet Union |
| glasnost | policy of transparency of Government and free speech |
| perestroika | lesss government control, more private enterprise |
| collective farming | government owned farming |
| Boris Yeltsin | first president of Russian federation |
| 1979 invasion of Afghanistan | SU's "Vietnam" - war wore down the resources and morale of the country |
| 1980 Moscow Olympics | boycotted by US to protest SU invasion of Afghanistan |
| Fall of the Berlin Wall | 1989 reunification of Germany |
| jihad | a "holy war" waged by Muslim extremists |
| dissadent | peerson who opposes the policies of the government |
| satellite states | Soviet states that rebelled against Soviet control and created separate republics |
| August Coup | unsuccessful attempt by Communist hardliners to depose Yeltsin and Gorbachev |
