Discovery Education
End of the Cold War
Name __________________________ Date ______________ Period_________
Video: History in the Making: 1989
Segment: Crisis within the USSR
1. When did the Berlin wall come down?
2. Who is the Russian that does nothing during this event?
3. What did Gorbachev encourage in his four years of power?
4. What could Russian citizens now participate in, which had not happened in this
country since 1917?
5. Why were the citizens upset around the time of the election?
6. Who won the election? By what percentage?
7. Why did 5,000 coal miners in Ukraine and Siberia strike?
8. What did the Baltic people living under Soviet control do at this time?
Segment: Changes with in Soviet Blocks.
9. What collapses like a house of cards?
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10. What countries are witness popular movements for reforms and free elections?
11. How did Moscow respond to these popular movements?
12. How many years had the Berlin wall separated the people of Berlin?
13. What did the masses that gathered in celebration at the Berlin wall begin to do?
14. What happened in Romania at this time?
15. How many Romania’s lost their lives in the uprising against the dictator?
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