1. POLAND 1956

2. Glossary
It’s important to make sure you learn the meanings of key words as you go along.
Start a glossary in the back of your exercise book. Add pictures if it helps!
Start with the following:
• USSR
• Communism
• Comecon
• Cominform
• Stalin
• Tito
• Khrushchev
• De-Stalinisation
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact

3. Recap
What was de-Stalinisation and how similar to
Stalin was Khrushchev?
Why was the Warsaw Pact so important?

4. Poland 1956
What impact do you think Khrushchev’s policies
had on Eastern Europe?
What happened in Poland?

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDhB-
ez25HQ

6. Answer the following questions using your video
notes and p.128:
1. What happened in the summer of 1956 and
why?
2. What did Khrushchev do and why?
3. Why do you think Gomulka was accepted by
the Poles?
4. What did Khrushchev then do and why do
you think he did that?

7. Plenary
What was the lesson of Poland for the other
countries in Eastern Europe?

8. HL (For Wednesday)
1. Re-do TL if necessary
2. Complete glossary so far
3. Why was there opposition to Soviet rule in
Hungary? (Make notes in rough using p.129)