Collapse of Communism review

What was happening to the power and resources within the Soviet Union?

• Given to Peasants

• Equally shared among the people

• Given to central committee members of the party

• Workers controlled the wealth

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, what happened to any Warsaw Pact nation that attempted to create a more democratic government?

• Invaded by the Soviet Union

• Helped by the U.S.

• Allowed to become democratic

• Gained independence

What was the Reagan Doctrine?

• Increased spending on the military and defense

• Easing tensions with the Soviet Union

• Beat the Soviet Union to the moon

• Promote communism around the world

What happened to the Communist party in the early 1980s?

• It was strengthened by new leaders

• It had old, weak leaders that sent it into chaos

• It challenged Reagan's power

• It expanded Soviet power into Eastern Europe

What was Glasnost?

• Openness, allowing for more freedom of speech

• Economic reforms designed to improve the economy

• Reforms fo the communist party

• KGB given more power to crack down on dissent

What was Perestroika?

• Free market-like reforms to the Soviet Economy

• The final stage of the communist takeover

• Greater government control of the state

• Creation of a new state run tax bureau

How did the Soviet Union react when Eastern European states began to form democratic governments in the late 1980s early 1990s?

• Abandoned Brezhnev Doctrine and did not intervened

• Intervened and attacked the democratic governments

• Allowed Poland to leave the Warsaw pact but not the Baltic states

• Agreed with the nationalists

What was the unintended affect of Gorbachev's reforms?

• It made it impossible for the Soviet Union to stop criticism

• It lead to more repression

• It helped the Soviet economy

• It did not make anyone more free