Post War eastern europe quiz

Question 0

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

Answer 0

Imre Nagy

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Lech Walesa

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Haclav pavel

Question 3

In 1968 Soviet forces crushed the Prague Spring in this country

Answer 3

Czechoslovakia

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Ceausescu

Question 5

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

Answer 5

General Jarulzelski

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Alexander Dubcek

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Hungary

Question 8

This soviet leader allowed the fall of the iron curtan

Answer 8

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Rumania