Cold War 20 - 'Assess the consequences for Eastern Europe in the 1990s of the collapse of Soviet power'

Question 1

What are the 4 factors for the question ‘assess the consequences for Eastern Europe in the 1990s of the collapse of Soviet power’

Answer 1

1. Political instability
2. Political stability
3. Yugoslavian Civil War
4. German reunification

Question 2

1. POLITICAL INSTABILITY

Answer 2

1. POLITICAL INSTABILITY

Question 3

What was the August Coup?

Answer 3

A coup d’etat led by the KGB chairman with other minister and generals to stop the signing of the New Union Treaty and turn the clock back to the days of authoritarian rule

Question 4

When did Gorbachev resign and disband the Central Committee?

Answer 4

24th August 1991

Question 5

When did the Soviet Union officially cease to exist?

Answer 5

25th December 1991

Question 6

How many people were killed when Yeltsin shelled the White House in 1993?

Answer 6

147

Question 7

When was the Chechen War fought and how many people died?

Answer 7

1994-1996, 100,000 deaths

Question 8

When was the Velvet Divorce (dissolution of Czechoslovakia)?

Answer 8

1st January 1993

Question 9

2. POLITICAL STABILITY
   What did the Bulgarian Communist Party rebrand itself as in April 1990?

Answer 9

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP)

Question 10

When was the BSP part of a coalition government?

Answer 10

1992 to 1994

Question 11

When did the BSP win a majority in Bulgaria?

Answer 11

1994

Question 12

What % of the vote did Lech Walesa win in the first Polish presidential election on November and December 1990?

Answer 12

74.25%

Question 13

What did the Hungarian Communist Party the MSZMP rebrand itself as?

Answer 13

The Hungarian Socialist Party

Question 14

What % of the vote did the Hungarian Socialist Party win in 1990?

Answer 14

11%

Question 15

When did the HSP enter a coalition government?

Answer 15

1994

Question 16

3. YUGOSLAVIAN CIVIL WAR
   When did Croatia and Slovenia declare independence?

Answer 16

June 1991

Question 17

When did Bosnia-Herzegovina declare independence?

Answer 17

March 1992

Question 18

Who won the first multi-party elections in Serbia in 1990?

Answer 18

The Communists

Question 19

What parties won the elections in the rest of Yugoslavia?

Answer 19

Pro-nationalist parties

Question 20

When did the Yugoslav army invade Croatia?

Answer 20

Summer of 1991

Question 21

How many died in the war between Serbia and Croatia?

Answer 21

20,000

Question 22

How many died in the war between Serbia and Bosnia?

Answer 22

100,000

Question 23

How many people died in the 4 year siege of Sarajevo?

Answer 23

14,000 people

Question 24

How many were massacred by Serbs in Srebrenica?

Answer 24

8000

Question 25

How many people have been indicted for war crimes since the Yugoslavian Civil War?

Answer 25

161

Question 26

How many people died in the Yugoslavian Civil War?

Answer 26

120,000 - 140,000

Question 27

4. GERMAN REUNIFICATION
   What did the 4 wartime allies agree in 1990?

Answer 27

That West Germany should absorb the old east

Question 28

What party led to Kohl won elections in Germany in March 1990 and what did they promise in their campaign?

Answer 28

Christian Democratic Union - wanted the quickest possible route to German reunification

Question 29

How did the FRG convince Gorbachev to remove all 360,000 Soviet troops from East Germany?

Answer 29

They promised the USSR 12 billion DM if they removed all their troops by 1994

Question 30

What treaty was signed on the 12th September 1990?

Answer 30

The 2 + 4 treaty

Question 31

When was German reunification?

Answer 31

3rd October 1990