The Collapse Of Soviet Controll In Eastern Europe 1985-91

Question 1

When did Gorbachev become leader of the Soviet Union?

Answer 1

1985

Question 2

When was the INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force)?

Answer 2

1987

Question 3

When did Gorbachev win a nobel peace prize?

Answer 3

1990

Question 4

At tye time Gorbachev came to power why was the Soviet Union facing problems?

Answer 4

Arms race was hirting the econemy whilst there was little investment in the Soviet economy and there was barley no inducstial growth in the USSR or the satalite states

Communsim was undesirable. West was a lot more desirable to live in
Lack of human rights
Polands loyalty was questionary because of solidarity movement
The satalite states were only kept in line by use of secret police
There wad been poor leadership of the USSR over the last couple years

Question 5

When did Brezhnev die?

Answer 5

1982

Question 6

Who was Brezhnev’s sucesser?

When did he die?

Answer 6

Andropov

1984

Question 7

Who was Andropov’s succeser?

Whe did he die?

Answer 7

Chernenko

1985

Question 8

What was effect of the solidarity movement in Poland?

Answer 8

It caused a huge threat to the USSR that is was banned

In 1981 authoritys decleared martial law

Spciet troops carried out manuvers around the Poland boarder ready to invade if necisary

Question 9

What is martial law?

Answer 9

It can be imposed so that the military have controll over normall life

Question 10

What was the secret police in East Germany called?

Answer 10

Stasi

Question 11

What was the secret police called in Romania?

Answer 11

Securitate

Question 12

When was the Chernobyl disaster?

Where?

Answer 12

26 April 1986

At the Chernobyl power station in the Soviet Union

Question 13

How much radiation was released by the Chernobyl disaster?

Answer 13

100X more than the radiation released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb

Question 14

What did the Soviet’s say about Chernobyl?

Answer 14

They were were reluctant to release details

Question 15

How many people died directly from Chernobyl?

Answer 15

31

Question 16

How many people were moved away from the Chernobyl disaster?

Answer 16

350,000 to avoid the radiation

Question 17

How many deaths due to cancer were there because of the Chernobyl disaster?

Answer 17

It is uknown but a enviromentalist group Greenpeace estimate about 93,000 deaths

Question 18

What is Chernobyl like now?

Answer 18

Wildlife thrives there in the exculsion zone

Question 19

What is Gorbachev been said to have told in wife?

When?

Answer 19

In 1985

“We can’t go on living like this”

Question 20

What did Gorbachev do to reform communism?

Answer 20

Indroduced new foreign policy and improved relations with the US

Dropped the Brezhnev doctrine

The Soviets would reduce spending on arms and deffence

The Soviets would withdraw from Afghanistan

Question 21

What was Gorbachev’s new foreign policy’s?

Answer 21

Perestrokia

Glasnost

Question 22

Explain perestrokia?

Answer 22

This reformed the Soviet’s economy to be more like the economys of western countries (captalist economys)

Question 23

Explain Glasnost?

Answer 23

Roughly translates to openness/transparacy. It gave the people more freedom and made it clearer how the government worked

Question 24

What did the dropping of the brezhnev doctrine mean?

Answer 24

It ment that the Soviet Union wouldn’t get involved in domestic affairs with other communist countries

Question 25

What did Regan do and view gorbachev’s new thinking?

Answer 25

An opotunity to end the cold war he addopted an more open approach with the Soviet Union