Nationalism

4. … systems. New political structures operating outside Soviet institutions.
8. Gorbachev’s program of political and economic reform intended to modernize the Soviet Union and improve relations between Moscow and the republics.
9. The state of the Soviet republics remaining together as one country.
10. A struggle between independence movements and the Soviet government.
11. The right of nations to govern themselves and choose their own political future.

1. City where tensions between Lithuania and the Soviet government escalated.
2. Working together through negotiation and dialogue.
3. Three Soviet republics (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) that led independence movements against Soviet rule
5. First Soviet republic to declare independence.
6. This is what reform was never meant to encourage according to Gorbachev.
7. Loyalty and identification with one's nation rather than a larger state.