the collapse of communism in east europe
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ACTIVITY A 53
CREATION OF WORK SHEETS / EVALUATION SHEETS
THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN EAST EUROPE
1989-1992
Spanish Team
ACTIVITIES OF SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION (10 questions)
You can consult any source (text books, newspapers, magazines, documentaries, web, teachers) to find out the correct answer 1.- In which country a communist party took the power for the first time? Clue: a very big country 2.- Which philosophers or thinkers established the theoretical principles of communism? Clue: they called themselves “scientific socialists” 3.- Indicate the Eastern European countries where a Communist regime was imposed by Soviet Union after the Second World War. Clue: they were eight 4.- In the Soviet Union existed in the 80´s a gerontocracy. What was it?
5.- In the communist countries a planned economy existed. What does it mean? 7.- In the communist countries a police state existed. What does it mean? 8.- Who was the Soviet leader who triggered the collapse of communism. Clue: he reached the power in 1985 9.- The Gorbachov´s reforms knonw as Perestroika and Glasnot encouraged Soviet people to go out to streets to ask for the end of communism. Which were the aims of these two reforms? Perestroika: Glasnot: 10.- List the three European countries which were divided in this time
LOCATION IN A MAP Write the name and put the flag of these European communist countries in their correct place. Albania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Soviet Union
ORDER THIS SOVIET AND RUSSIAN LEADERS IN A CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER You can cut and stick the lables and photos in the table
Name Years in power
Photo
Stalin
Gorbachov
Chernenko
Andropov
Lenin
Breznev
Jruschev
1953-1964
1984-1985 1964-1982
1918-1924 1924-1953
1985-1990
1982-1984
Yeltsin
Putin
1991-1999 1999-
Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia dissapeared as united countries in the time of the collapse of communism. Complete the maps of the new nations born from them
The former Yugoslavia
Serbia FYR Macedonia Slovenia Croatia Kosovo Montenegro Voivodina Bosnia Herzegovina
The former Czechoslovakia Write these names in their correct places
New countries .- Czech Republic .- Slovakia Capitals Prague Bratislava
The former Soviet Union Write these names in their correct places
Russia Georgia Lithuania Azerbaijan Latvia Turkmenistan Estonia Kazahstan Belarus Uzbekistan Moldova Kirghizstan Kaliningrad Tadjikistan Ukraina Armenia
Identify the most important European communist leaders (the most of them lost the power when Communism collpased
Name Country Photo
Albania
Yugoslavia
Poland
Romania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
USSR
Leaders Erick Honecker Nicolae Ceaucescu Enver Hoxha Mihail Gorbachov Janos Kadar Todor Zhivkov. Gustáv Husák Wojciech Jaruzelski
These people played an important and active role in the collapse of Communism in Europe. Link properly these data and pictures with arrows
He was politician
She was politician
He was electrician and syndicalist
He was an intellectual
He was the Pope
He was engineer electrician
He was actor and politician
Lech Walesa Vaclav Havel Karol Woijtyla Boris Yeltsin Petre Roman Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher
Try to identify the country, the figures and the events explaing them briefly