CNN Cold War documentary part 24:
Conclusions
During and/or after the video, you should be able to answer the following questions.
You may or not be tested on the following questions upon my return to ensure that you are paying attention...
- Who were the last two Cold War leaders of the US and the USSR?
- What major events had occurred before the Malta Conference in 1989?
- What was the difference in relations between the US and USSR by the Malta Conference?
- What happened in Czechoslovakia in 1989?
- What happened in Romania in 1989?
- What was the difference between these two revolutions?
- What problems faced Gorbachev in the USSR?
- What did the demonstrators in USSR want?
- What did this mean for the Communists?
- What did this mean for the Communists?
- Which states wanted total independence from the USSR?
- Who started to use the economic discontent to weaken Gorbachev?
- What did he accept that Gorbachev could not?
- What did he accept that Gorbachev could not?