Chapter 31 Review 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?

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