The Fall of Communism in Europe

What grew in Eastern Europe as a result of Soviet control of Warsaw Pact nations?

• Communist Parties

• Nationalist Movements

• Western Democracies

What was the effect of the Soviet's massive military spending on the Soviet economy?

• Soviet GDP grew throughout the 80s

• The Soviet economy collapse in the 80s

• The Soviets abolished the economy

• The Soviet economy dipped into recession but quickly recovered

Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?

• Mikhail Kalashnikov

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

What were Gorbachev's reforms called?

• Glasnost

• Davai Davai

• Kommunizm

• Perestroika

Glasnost means -

• openness

• reform

• restructuring

• enclosure

Perestroika means -

• openness

• reform

• restructuring

• enclosure

Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika encouraged -

• Western democracy in Eastern Europe

• Soviet crackdowns in Eastern Europe

• nationalist movements in Eastern Europe

Allowed by Gorbachev in 1989 which led to Nationalist revolutions that overthrew communist gov'ts throughout Eastern Europe.

• Overthrow of the Soviet gov't

• Joseph Stalin's burial in the Kremlin Wall

• Fall of the Berlin Wall

• German reunification

What happened in Germany in 1990 which was initially sparked by the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the East German communist gov't?

• Germany was divided into four sectors

• Germany was occupied by the Allies

• German reunification

• Germany was abolished as a nation

What happened to the Warsaw Pact?

• It dissolved in 1990

• It was absorbed into NATO

• It still exists today