Post War eastern europe quiz Flashcards

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This communist leader announced that Hungary was pulling out of the Warsaw Pact. Soviet troops invaded, crushed the rebellion and removed him from power

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Imre Nagy

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One of the original founders of the Solidarity labor union, this man was eventually elected president of Poland

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Lech Walesa

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Dissident, playwright, and first non-communist elected to office in Czechoslovakia. He eloquently urged his people to avoid revenge against the communists

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Haclav pavel

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In 1968 Soviet forces crushed the Prague Spring in this country

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Czechoslovakia

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This brutal dictator resisted the fall of the Iron Curtain but lost and was executed for his crimes against the people

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Ceausescu

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Polish leader who announced martial law, outlawed Solidarity, and arrested and imprisioned its leaders. He did this to avoid more brutal Soviet occupation

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General Jarulzelski

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This elected Communist leader tried to liberalize his country in what has become known as the Prague Spring

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Alexander Dubcek

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This country was invaded by soviet forces in1956 when it tried to pull out of the Warsaw pact

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Hungary

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This soviet leader allowed the fall of the iron curtan

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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This eastern European nation was the only one in which the leadership fought to retain power when the iron curtain collapsed

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Rumania

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