30 vocab

Question 1

de’tente

Answer 1

the progressive relaxation of cold war tensions

Question 2

new left

Answer 2

a movement of students in the west who advocated simpler, purer socieities based on an updated, romanticized version of marxism

Question 3

brezhnev doctrine

Answer 3

doctrine created by leonid brezhnev that held that the soviet union had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever it saw the need

Question 4

OPEC

Answer 4

the arab-led organization of petroleum exporting-countries

Question 5

stagflation

Answer 5

the term coined in the early 1980s to describe the combination of low growth and high inflation that led to a worldwide recession

Question 6

post industrial society

Answer 6

society that relies on high tech and service oriented jobs for economic growth rather than on heavy industry and manufacturing jobs

Question 7

neoliberalism

Answer 7

philosophy of the 1980s conservatives who argued for decreased government spending on social services and privatization of state-run industries

Question 8

really existing socialism

Answer 8

a term used by communist leaders to describe the socialist accomplishments of their societies, such as nationalized industry and collective agriculture

Question 9

solidarity

Answer 9

outlawed polish trade union that worked for workers rights and political reform throughout the 1980s

Question 10

perestroika

Answer 10

economic restructuring and reform implemented by soviet premier gorbachev in 1985

Question 11

glasnot

Answer 11

soviet premier gorbachev’s popular campaign for openness in government and the media

Question 12

shock therapy

Answer 12

the solidarity led government’s radical take on economic affairs that abruptly ended state planning and moved to market mechanisms and private property