The thickness of your blood depends on specialized blood cells, called platelets. After tissue damage, your platelets activate, clump together and begin to synthesize protein fibers that hold the cells together in a blood clot to prevents bleeding from the injury site.
Gorbachev implemented Glasnost to make the Soviet Union more free and more in line with other modern industrialized countries. Glasnost was a set of policies created in the late 1980s to: 1  Make the government of the USSR more transparent. 2  Increase accessibility to the affairs of the government.
Under Deng, China began a period of moderate policies following all the upheavals of Mao. Deng was determined to carry out the Four Modernisations of Zhou. These reforms were launched at the 3rd Plenum of the Communist Party in December 1978.