Cold War 20 - 'Political Instability in Eastern Europe was the main consequence of the collapse of the Soviet power there'. How far do you agree?

Question 1

What are the 4 factors in the question ‘Political instability in Eastern Europe was the main consequence of the collapse of the Soviet power there’?

Answer 1

• Political Instability
• Political stability
• Yugoslavian Civil War
• German reunification

Question 2

1. POLITICAL INSTABILITY:
   How many died in the Romanian Revolution?

Answer 2

1000 died

Question 3

How many protestors turned up in Bucharest during a Nicolae Ceausescu speech?

Answer 3

100,000

Question 4

When was Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife executed?

Answer 4

25th December 1989

Question 5

Who took power days after the execution after Nicolae Ceausescu’s execution?

Answer 5

The National Salvation Front

Question 6

What did the National Salvation Front (NSF) announce after they had taken power?

Answer 6

The abolition of the one-party system

Question 7

When was the New Union Treaty agreed upon which would transfer power the Central Executive Committee to the 15 different Soviet republics?

Answer 7

April 1991

Question 8

What happened right before the New Union Treaty was about the be signed in August 1991?

Answer 8

There was the ‘August Coup’ by the KGB chairman and several other generals to try and turn the clock back to the days of authoritarian rule

Question 9

Who came out as a hero after the August Coup?

Answer 9

Russian President Boris Yeltsin

Question 10

When did Gorbachev resign and disband the Central Committee?

Answer 10

24th August 1991

Question 11

When did the Soviet Union officially cease to exist?

Answer 11

25th December 1991

Question 12

When did Yeltsin shell the White House and how many people died?

Answer 12

1993 - 147 were killed

Question 13

What war was fought from 1994 to 1996 and how many people died?

Answer 13

Chechen War - 100,000 deaths

Question 14

What did Yeltsin form in 1995 in order to win the 1996 presidential election?

Answer 14

An oligarchy e.g. Abramovich

Question 15

When was the Velvet Divorce, the dissolution of Czechoslovakia?

Answer 15

1st January 1993

Question 16

2. NO POLITICAL INSTABILITY
   What % of seats in the Polish Sejm were the Communists guaranteed in the June 1989 elections?

Answer 16

65%

Question 17

How many of the 161 available seats did Solidarity win the June 1989 elections in Poland?

Answer 17

160 of 161 available seats

Question 18

What % of the vote did Lech Walesa win in the first Polish presidential elections in November and December 1990?

Answer 18

74.25%

Question 19

What did the Bulgarian Communist Party rebrand itself as?

Answer 19

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP)

Question 20

When were the BSP in a coalition government in Bulgaria?

Answer 20

1992 to 1994

Question 21

When did the BSP win a majority in Bulgaria?

Answer 21

1994

Question 22

Who replaced Communist Todor Zhikov as leader of Bulgaria in 1989 and when did he announce that free elections would be held?

Answer 22

Peter Mladenov - announced that free elections would be held in 1990

Question 23

What did the Hungarian party MSZMP rebrand itself as in November 1989?

Answer 23

The Hungarian Socialist Party (HSP)

Question 24

What % of the vote did the HSP win in elections in 1990?

Answer 24

11%

Question 25

When did the Hungarian Socialist Party enter a coalition government?

Answer 25

1994

Question 26

What did the Hungarian government announce after winning the election in 1990?

Answer 26

That the border fence with Austria would be dismantled - way open to the West

Question 27

3. YUGOSLAVIAN CIVIL WAR.
   When did Tito die?

Answer 27

4th Mary 1980

Question 28

What was the main reason for the Yugoslavian Civil War?

Answer 28

Ethnic tensions

Question 29

When did Croatia and Slovenia declare independence?

Answer 29

June 1991

Question 30

When did Bosnia-Herzegovina declare independence?

Answer 30

March 1992

Question 31

When did the Yugoslav army invade Croatia?

Answer 31

Summer of 1991

Question 32

How many people died in the war between Croatia and the Yugoslavian army?

Answer 32

20,000

Question 33

What city was sieged for 3 years and 10 months?

Answer 33

Sarajevo

Question 34

How many people died in the siege of Sarajevo?

Answer 34

14,000

Question 35

What were both sides accused of in the war?

Answer 35

Ethnic cleansing

Question 36

How many died in the Bosnian war?

Answer 36

100,000

Question 37

How many people died in the Yugoslavian Civil War?

Answer 37

120,000-140,000

Question 38

4. GERMAN REUNIFICATION.
   What did the 4 wartime allies agree in regards to Germany in 1990?

Answer 38

That West Germany should absorb the old east

Question 39

Who won the Germany elections in March 1990?

Answer 39

Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU)

Question 40

What % of the vote did the CDU win in the March 1990 elections and what was the turnout?

Answer 40

Won 48% of the vote, 93% turnout

Question 41

How many troops did the USSR have in East Germany in December 1989 and how did Kohl convince Gorbachev to remove the troops?

Answer 41

360,000 troops, promised the USSR 12 billion DM if they removed all their troops by 1994

Question 42

What treaty was signed on the 12th September 1990?

Answer 42

The Two Plus Four Treaty

Question 43

What did the 2 + 4 treaty do?

Answer 43

The four powers gave up all their rights over Germany

Question 44

When was German reunification?

Answer 44

3rd October 1990