18.5 Guided Reading
The End of the Cold War
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What were at least four signs of the Soviet Union declining?
How did Khrushchev change the Soviet Union from how Stalin ran the country?
What were some of the problems the Soviet economy faced?
How did the central economic planning lead to inefficiency and waste?
How did the arms race with the United States affect the Soviet command
economy?
6. What happened with the Soviet Union in 1979?
7. What were the Soviets fighting against in Afghanistan?
8. What new policies did Mikhail Gorbechev intend to implement in an attempt to
improve the Soviets’ situation?
9. What were his intentions for at home?
10. What were the outcomes of Gorbechev’s reforms?
11. What countries revolted for independence a second time?
12. What happened in Czechoslovakia and Hungary?
13. What happened in Poland?
14. How did East Germans begin to leave the country?
15. What type of economy did the new liberated Poland transition to?
16. What type of government did the people begin to demand?
17. When did Czechoslovakia divide and why?
18. What did the leaders of the People’s Republic of China do during this time?
19. What did Communist Vietnam do as communism declined?
20. How was the United States viewed with the decline of communism around the
world as well as the fall of Soviet Union?