Eastern Europe 1

After World War II, Eastern Europe was mostly under the influence of

• the Soviet Union.

• the United States.

• Poland.

• the United Kingdom.

What happened to Czechoslovakia after the fall of the Soviet Union?

• It endured decades of ethnic conflict

• It gained control of former Soviet republics

• It became the greatest economy in the region

• It divided peacefully into two different countries.

All but one happened as a result of opening up the markets in Eastern Europe. Which did not happen?

• These markets were allowed to do business with Western capitalist markets

• Governments dictated what products were created in the country

• Citizens were free to buy what they wanted.

• Private citizens were bale to choose their own jobs with businesses.

Czechoslovakia was broken into what 2 countries?

• Ukraine and Romania

• The Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic

• The Baltic Republics and Poland

• Moldova and Belarus

What is a central planning market?

• Businesses determine what they want to sell.

• Citizens determine the supply and demand of the economy

• The government plans what will be created and sold.

• People are free to trade and buy what they want.

What is an open market?

• unrestricted marker where people are free to buy and sell what they want.

• A government controlled market.

• A market where people are free to buy what they want but the government decides what to sell.

• There is no such thing as an open market.

What kind of government was the Soviet Union?

• Limited government

• democracy

• totalitarian

• Communist

True or False: Yugoslavia had a peaceful separation from the Soviet Union

• True

• False

What happened to the countries bordering the Soviet Union in 1991?

• They collapsed along with the Soviet Union.

• They declared independence from the Soviet Union.

• They became communist countries for the first time.

• They came under the control of the United States.

What happened to Yugoslavia after the fall of the Soviet Union?

• The country peacefully gave independence to various ethnic groups.

• The country renamed itself Bosnia and became a democracy.

• The single country eventually split into two different republics.

• Ethnic divisions led to years of conflict, ethnic cleansing, and war.