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