The European countries became one-party state. Which party?
Cominform
The Communist Party
Socialist Party
Comecon
Revolution in Iran; New nuclear weapons; Collapse of SALT 2; The Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics - all led to the:
Cold War to freeze again in 1980s
Cold War to thaw in the 1970s
Detente
Hostility between the superpowers
He ended the USSR's long feuds with China and Yugoslavia; he talked of peaceful co-existence with the West. Who?
Stalin
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Marshal Tito
Nikita Khrushchev
Match the following. (a) Free elections in Poland (i) October 1989 (b) Latvia becomes independent (ii) November 1989 (c) The Berlin Wall dismantled (iii) May 1989 (d) Gorbachev tells Erich Honecker to reform (iv) March 1990 (e) Hungarians begins dismantling the barbed-wire fence (v) June 1989
(a, v) (b, iv) (c, ii) (d, i) (e, iii)
(a, iv) (b, ii) (c, i) (d, iii) (e, v)
(a, iii) (b, iv) (c, v) (d, ii) (e, i)
(a, ii) (b, i) (c, iv) (d, v) (e, iii)
Name the one aspect of Stalin's policy that Khrushchev did not change.
The Warsaw Pact
He appointed Molotov as his Foreign Minister
He continued the Cominform
He increased the expenditure on arms
Name the hard-line Communist leader who led Hungary.
Erno Gero
Imre Nagy
Laszlo Beke
Matyas Rakosi
Who was the first non-Communist President of Poland?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Lech Walesa
Jaruzelski
What was the trade union of Poland started in August 1980 called?
Checkpoint Charlie
Solidarity
SALT
