Answer the Following Questions

question 71

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions:
-glasnost

• A)Doctrine that held that the Soviet Union had the right to intervene in any East Bloc country whenever it saw the need.
• B)Society that relies on high-tech and service-oriented jobs for economic growth rather than heavy industry and manufacturing jobs.
• C)Term coined in the early 1980s to describe the combination of low growth and high inflation that led to a worldwide recession.
• D)A term used by Communist leaders to describe the socialist accomplishments of their societies, such as nationalized industry, collective agriculture, and extensive social welfare programs.
• E)Philosophy of 1980s conservatives who argued for decreased government spending on social services and privatization of state-run industries.
• F)The term given to the relatively peaceful overthrow of communism in Czechoslovakia; the label came to signify the collapse of the East Bloc in general in 1989 to 1990.
• G)The progressive relaxation of Cold War tensions that emerged in the early 1970s.
• H)Independent Polish trade union that worked for workers' rights and political reform throughout the 1980s.
• I)A 1960s counterculture movement that embraced updated forms of Marxism to challenge both Western capitalism and Soviet-style communism.
• J)Economic restructuring and reform implemented by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in 1985.
• K)Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev's popular campaign for openness in government and the media.

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