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Gdansk shipyard worker demanded the Government recognize Solidarity as a union. Eventually the government gave in.
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Both of his successors died after a year in office.
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Perestroika was an economic restructuring.
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Glasnost was an opening of ideas and opinions.
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Democritization would gradually open the political system.
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Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty banned nuclear missles with a range of 300 to 3,400 miles.
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This allowed thousands of people to escape from East Germany to West. East Germany closed its borders in response.
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Radicals deposed the party leader, and dissolved it.
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Hundreds were arrested demanding democracy and freedom. Three weeks later, in a different protest, police brutally attacked the protesters and killed many.
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This was a gamble to save communism that did not work.
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He was a Solidarity candidate, and introduced shock therapy to the economy.
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Helmut Kohl helped to persuade European nations to learn from the past.
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Yeltsin denied its right to secede, and destroyed the Capital in 1994.
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Killed 14 and wounded hundreds in the Capital.
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Demanded his resignation from office.
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Shock therapy caused an inflation of 800% from 1992 to 1994.
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The party was mostly former communists. The Socialists and Democrats formed a coalition.
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After Yeltsin won reelection, war soon broke out again.
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Gerhard Schroeder was of the Socialist Democratic Party, was reelected in 2002.
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President Kwasniewski led this. Poland gave strong support against terrorism.
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He won popularity by dealing with Chechnya harshly.
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Due to: weak exports, decline in foreign investments, and excessive spending.
