World History Questions - 10 points to best answer!!?

Question

1. Describe 2 developments in the Soviet Union which led to the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

2. List any 3 East European countries which were Soviet Satellites during the Cold War.

I'm terrible in history, help please! Thank you!

Answer 1

2. poland checzkoslovokia and hungary

Answer 2

1)  I believe, overspending in the military which led to bankrupcy because the economy was not flexible enough for the job, that is, because everything had to be so carefully regulated, that in and of itself was a drain on economic resources, so ANY overspending was bound to lead to an economic crash.  The other factor was internal corruption; technologically, Russia was actually decades ahead of the U.S.  Indeed, the sudden technological explosion of the 1990's coincides with the fall of the wall.  Reason it does, there was a massive brain drain that traveled to western countries in Russia.

2)  I believe Lithuania, Romania, and Belarus.

hope I got it right....

Answer 3

Here are just two developments in the USSR - late 80s

i) Gorbachev (pronounced Gorbachoff) becoming General Secretary of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) - effectively Head of State.  He was young and reform minded - led to the 'Sinatra doctrine' - letting the satellite countries do it their way.

ii) Military failure in Afghanistan - showed many in the satellite countries, and in some of the republics of the USSR that the military / industrial complex could be beaten.

2 - The satellite states were:

Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany (DDR)

Non-aligned Communist states in Eastern Europe were Yugoslavia and Albania.

See:

http://soviethistory.org/index.php?actio...

http://socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/01...

N.B.  The states of Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia and, as one answerer put it - 'all the stans' were constituent republics of the Soviet Union.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_o...

Answer 4

You're not terrible at history. You're just lazy and don't want to do the work. But, you're in luck cause I'm a history nerd and don't mind answering the questions...hold on.

You know what... I was thinking that I would write you paragraphs explaining both answers, but then I realized, I'm not getting graded for this, you are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War

That's a accurate and really quick way to learn about the background and end of the Cold War. The answers to both those questions are in there. I saw them both in there.

And that there's more to it than nukes and satellites. That's the dumb American edition to the history of the Cold War.

Answer 5

Tajikistan,Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,Uzbekistan...all stans. latvia,

Estonia,Belarus, Ukraine,lithuania,(Yugoslavia(blah))

all the treaties  salt 2, collapse(de-stalinization=weaken grip on satellite states)

Answer 6

The forming of the united nations and the stockpile of the US's nuclear weapons. As for communist satilites there was china north korea and japan. I think