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1. The conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe resulted in the signing of an international agreement wherein 35 nations guaranteed the frontiers of 1945 and pledged respect for human rights. This agreement became known as the
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2. The welfare crisis of the 21
st
century was due to a tighter economy and the impact of the
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3. In 1979
became the first woman prime minister in British history.
4. The first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc, which grew to ten million members, under the leadership of Lech Walesa was called
.
5. The Gorbachev revolution was characterized by glasnost, a freer political and cultural life in which criticism of the party and state were possible, and
, the reforming of political and economic structures to create more democracy and efficiency.
6. In 1989,
and President George Bush met on the Mediterranean island of Malta and issued a joint declaration that the half-century-long Cold War was "at an end."
7. After the Communist government resigned in Czechoslovakia, the Czech Parliament adopted a democratic system of government and scheduled elections and named
interim president of Czechoslovakia.
8. The atrocities during the war in
in the early 1990s were the worst in Europe since WWII.
9. A primary result of the
in 1995 stated that Bosnia would remain a single state within its previous borders, but it would contain two entities – a Bosnian-Croatian federation and a Bosnian Serb republic.
10. The Euro was adopted as Europe’s common currency in 1999 abolishing many historic currencies, however,
chose to retain their currency of the pound sterling.
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