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History 309 – CONTEMPORARY EUROPE – November 30, 2005  

MIRACLE YEARS: 1989-1991  

TERMS TO KNOW:  

  1. Margaret Thatcher
  2. Falklands War
  3. Ulster
  4. Helmut Kohl
  5. The Green Party
  6. Francois Mitterand
  7. Women’s rights in 1980s Europe
  8. Brezhnev – Andropov – Chernenko
  9. Mikhail Gorbachev
  10. glasnost & perestroika
  11. Lech Walesa
  12. Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)
  13. Martial Law in Poland (1981)
  14. Erich Honecker
  15. Civic Forum
  16. Vaclav Havel
  17. Soviet coup of 1991
  18. Boris Yeltsin

From Perry

  1. Inter-factory Strike Committee
  2. Gorbachev
  3. Havel
  4. Stasi Report
  5. Ash
  6. Omestad

 

QUESTION: 1989 was, no doubt, the single most revolutionary year in Europe at least since 1945.  Make a list of all the things that happened in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  Which do you think were the most important?

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