B. unit 1 Eastern Europe Q.3 Flashcards
President, Congress, Supreme Court
checks and balances
Chi Rho cross
Constantine I
Reform in the USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev
Austria-Hungary
Dual Monarchy
Karl Marx
communism
Stalin
five-year plans
Poland’s capital
Warsaw
Orthodox
Russia’s religion
Croatia’s capital
Zagreb
Slavs
Early Europeans
In communism, no one owns any private property
True
Communism ended in Eastern Europe because ______ would no longer support it with military force.
the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was ruled by the Secretary General and a committee of fifteen men called the _____.
politburo
One way to begin the communist revolution was to create _________ among the workers.
dissension
The first world power to embrace communism was
Russia
The capital of East Germany was:
East Berlin
One Balkan country is:
Romania
In the Balkan countries, the Romans built
public baths
The Soviet leader whose reforms led to the end of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe was
Mikhail Gorbachev
Communist leaders came to power without the backing of the Soviet Union in:
Yugoslavia
Stalin was:
cruel
The former name of the Russian Communists was:
Bolsheviks
Khrushchev improved living conditions for the Russian people by
reducing the Secret Police
The first independent trade union in a communist country was the _______ movement in Poland.
Solidarity