Chapter 31 1st Homework Assignment
Answer the following questions:
1. What is meant by the re-Stalinization of the Soviet bloc and the Soviet Union? Give
examples.
2. Discuss the Solidarity movement in Poland in terms of origins, objectives, and
outcome. What is meant by the claim that it was “self-limiting” revolution?
3. What were the motives and the methods of Gorbachev? Why did he topple from
power?
4. Describe the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe. Who were the participants and
what were the results?
5. Describe what happened to the Soviet Union under Boris Yelstin. Do you consider
Yelstin a success?
6. What were the causes of German reunification? How was it tied to events in the
Soviet Union?
7. Describe the “new global economy” model that most European states began to follow
in the 1990s. Were they successful?
8. Where the new states of Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic successful in
the1990s? Explain.
9. What happened in the former Yugoslavia to cause its civil war? How was it dealt
with by the outside world?
10. In what ways had the European Union moved toward economy? Why have some
people opposed this?
Write out the following terms:
Gdansk Agreement of 1980
Maastricht Treaty of 1990
“Polish miracle” of 1980
perestroika
“Euro” currency
Boris Yelstin
Nicolae Ceausescu
Helmut Kohl
Slobadan Milosivic
Jacques Chirac
Single European Act of 1986
Paris Accord of 19990
Solidarity
glasnost
Mikhail Gorbachev
Lech Walesa
Bill Clinton
Saddam Hussein
Francois Mitterand
This is all due on the day of your 2nd semester final
and it’s worth 25 points: