Week 3 Terms

Question 1

Transformation

Answer 1

Authoritarian regime takes the lead of the transition and dictates its nature

Question 2

Replacement

Answer 2

Opposition controls the process of the transition

Question 3

Transplacement

Answer 3

Regime and opposition work together to form of transition

Question 4

Pacts

Answer 4

See O’Donnell and Schmitter

Question 5

Snowballing

Answer 5

When something in one region results in something else in another

Question 6

1989

Answer 6

collapse of the Soviet Union

Question 7

Gorbachev Effect

Answer 7

When the external effect of the Soviet Union was removed and made it easier for other countries to transition to democracy

Question 8

Solidarity

Answer 8

Union movement in Poland that initiated democracy

Question 9

Lech Walesa

Answer 9

First President of the Republic of Poland

Question 10

Imre Nagy

Answer 10

Hungarian communist leader whose death started the process of democratization

Question 11

Hungary Opening Borders with Austria

Answer 11

First fall of the Iron Curtain

Question 12

Roundtables

Answer 12

Meetings in communist countries to discuss democratic transition

Question 13

Civic Forum

Answer 13

Czech’s Peoples Democratic Movement

Question 14

Vaclav Havel

Answer 14

President of Czechoslovakia and then later, the Czech Republic

Question 15

The Prague Spring

Answer 15

Period of mass protest in Czechoslovakia to transition to democracy

Question 16

The Velvet Revolution

Answer 16

Peaceful protests of Czechoslovakians to transition to democracy

Question 17

Berlin Wall

Answer 17

Wall separating East and West Germany

Question 18

Erich Honecker

Answer 18

German communist leader who lead until shortly before the berlin wall fell