The Fall of the USSR

Question 1

Why were dozens of Serbs convicted of war crimes?

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B: They approved the policy of ethnic cleansing in the war.

Question 2

What was the “Velvet Divorce”?

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A: Czechoslovakia’s split into two countries

Question 3

What was the Berlin Wall?

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A: a wall that separated East and West Berlin

Question 4

What is the most likely reason the republics of Yugoslavia held together until the fall of communism?

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D: Dictator Josep Tito was a very powerful leader.

Question 5

What was East Germany’s biggest problem after it opened its borders?

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C: East Germany lost large numbers of skilled workers.

Question 6

What best describes Yugoslavia before its breakup?

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B: It was home to many ethnic groups.

Question 7

What happened in Poland in 1989?

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D: Lech Walesa became the first freely elected president.

Question 8

Read this excerpt from a summary of events in Srebrenica.Zina Hasanovic is one of the lucky ones – she knows what happened to her husband, Haris. As Serbian bullets raced through a group of tightly-packed Muslim prisoners, Haris, mortally wounded, fell on top of his first cousin and best friend, Mevludin Oric. Mevludin lay on the ground, covered in blood and for hours pretended to be dead. He managed to escape to tell Zina of her husband’s fate.Why is Zina Hasanovic referred to as “one of the lucky ones”?

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D: Most people never learned the fate of their loved ones.

Question 9

What happened when the Czechs tried to implement liberal reforms in 1968?

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C: The USSR and other Warsaw pact nations invaded.

Question 10

Look at this chart showing ethnic groups in Yugoslavia.

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C: ethnic tensions would have been reduced, limiting one group's dominance.

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