Fall of the GDR and the Soviet Union Crossword Puzzle

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Fall of the GDR and the Soviet Union Crossword Puzzle

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  • ulbricht: family name of first general secretary of the sed (first letter 'u')
  • honecker: family name of the second general secretary of the sed
  • stasi: short form of the gdr secret service
  • kohl: family name of german chancellor 1982-1998
  • bahr: west german politician who proposed a rapprochement between the frg and the gdr (first name 'egon')
  • im: acronym for an informal member of the gdr secret service
  • romania: country behind the iron curtain with a bloody revolution in 1989
  • pershing: name of general that us ballistic missiles were named after (first letter 'p')
  • brandt: initiator of the "ostpolitik" (his family name)
  • détente: originally french word that describes an easing or relaxing of tensions (first letter 'd')
  • yeltsin: first president of the russian federation 1991-1999 (his family name – last letter ‘n’)
  • glasnost: policy of openness and transparency implemented by mikhail gorbachev.
  • prague: eastern european capital invaded by warsaw pact troops in the spring of 1968
  • walesa: polish union leader who organized strikes against the communist party (his second name – first letter ‘w’)
  • helsinki: north european capital where east and west ratified a treaty to guarantee fundamental human rights in 1975
  • orange: colour that symbolizes the ukrainian revolution for democratic reform