CCEH#47 The Fall of Communism

What two events does John attempt to connect at the beginning of the episode?

• The COVID-19 Pandemic

• The Black Death

• The Great Dying

• The Spanish Flu

What were some forms for property owned by the Soviet Union?

• Farms

• Factories

• Intellectual rights

• All of the above

Who benefited most from the privatization of property and industry in former Soviet countries?

• A few individuals who used their power & influence to assets for cheap.

• A few intellectuals who used their intelligence to capitalize off the recent brain drain.

• Mostly the poor and working classes as the collapse of the Soviet Union was due to a second social revolution.

• Mostly western imperial powers who sought to exploit the weakened former Soviet republics.

What was the socio-economic result of the collapse of the Soviet Union for many countries?

• A collapse of social services.

• Mass unemployment & inflation.

• A spike in alcoholism & deaths of despair.

• Brain drain as those who could leave Eastern Europe did.

What country became a battleground for ethnicities in the 1990’s?

• Yugoslavia

• Scandinavia

• Estonia

• Poland

Which Yugoslav politician is the most notable from the Balkan Wars of the 1990s?

• Slobodan Milošević

• Josip Broz Tito

• Boris Yeltsin

• Bolesław Wałęsa

What organization based on collective military protection expanded dramatically following the collapse of the Soviet Union?

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• The Warsaw Pact

• The United Nations

• The European Union

Which two were portrayed as essential for the formation of the European Union?

• The Maastricht Treaty

• The Common Market

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• The European Steel and Coal Community

What unified currency was created for EU member states in 1999?

• The Euro

• The Pound

• The Krone

• The Ruble

What three EU member states did not adopt the Euro as their currency?

• The United Kingdom

• Demark

• Sweden

• All of the above