Fall of USSR Flashcards
Poland
Trade unions workers rights 10 million protest free elections remove communism
Austria
People protest and turn down the Iron Curtain
Berlin
Thousands of people in East Berlin protest go on holiday in Australia and refused to return go to West Berlin from Austria Gorbachev visits and peoples head on the wall
Tearing down the wall
In 1989
Czech Bulgaria Romania Hungary
Check her poetess Bulgaria have protest Romania dictator and wife is assassinated hungry huge protest
When does the Warsaw Pact collapse
By 1991 all the satellite states chose not to be communist
Yeltsin
Head of Russian government stops a military coop
Lithuania and Azerbaijan
Lithuania and Azerbaijan ask for independence and get it
When does Gorbachev resign
1991
What happens after Gorbachev resign
Russia is made into a free-market