The document discusses the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe from 1989-1992. It provides background information and questions to guide students in learning about the key events and figures of this period. Some of the questions ask students to identify the first communist party, influential communist thinkers, Eastern European countries that came under Soviet control after WWII, and reforms undertaken by Mikhail Gorbachev that led to the collapse of communism. Maps are included for students to label the countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Soviet Union after the fall of communism.

1. ACTIVITY A 53
CREATION OF WORK SHEETS / EVALUATION SHEETS
THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN EAST EUROPE
1989-1992
Spanish Team

2. ACTIVITIES OF SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION
(10 questions)
You can consult any source (text books, newspapers,
magazines, documentaries, web, teachers) to find out the
correct answer
1.- In which country a communist party took the power for
the first time? Clue: a very big country
2.- Which philosophers or thinkers established the theoretical
principles of communism? Clue: they called themselves
“scientific socialists”
3.- Indicate the Eastern European countries where a
Communist regime was imposed by Soviet Union after the
Second World War. Clue: they were eight
4.- In the Soviet Union existed in the 80´s a gerontocracy.
What was it?

3. 5.- In the communist countries a planned economy existed.
What does it mean?
7.- In the communist countries a police state existed. What
does it mean?
8.- Who was the Soviet leader who triggered the collapse of
communism. Clue: he reached the power in 1985
9.- The Gorbachov´s reforms knonw as Perestroika and
Glasnot encouraged Soviet people to go out to streets to ask
for the end of communism. Which were the aims of these two
reforms?
Perestroika:
Glasnot:
10.- List the three European countries which were divided in
this time

4. LOCATION IN A MAP
Write the name and put the flag of these European communist
countries in their correct place.
Albania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania,
Bulgaria, East Germany, Soviet Union

5. ORDER THIS SOVIET AND RUSSIAN LEADERS IN A CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
You can cut and stick the lables and photos in the table
Name Years in
power
Photo
Stalin
Gorbachov
Chernenko
Andropov
Lenin
Breznev
Jruschev
1953-1964
1984-19851964-1982
1918-1924 1924-1953
1985-1990
1982-1984
Yeltsin
Putin
1991-19991999-

6. Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia dissapeared as
united countries in the time of the collapse of communism.
Complete the maps of the new nations born from them
The former Yugoslavia
Serbia
FYR Macedonia
Slovenia
Croatia
Kosovo
Montenegro
Voivodina
Bosnia Herzegovina

7. The former Czechoslovakia
Write these names in their correct places
New countries
.- Czech Republic
.- Slovakia
Capitals
Prague
Bratislava

8. The former Soviet Union
Write these names in their correct places
Russia Georgia
Lithuania Azerbaijan
Latvia Turkmenistan
Estonia Kazahstan
Belarus Uzbekistan
Moldova Kirghizstan
Kaliningrad Tadjikistan
Ukraina
Armenia

9. Identify the most important European communist
leaders (the most of them lost the power when
Communism collpased
Name Country Photo
Albania
Yugoslavia
Poland
Romania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
USSR
Leaders
Erick Honecker
Nicolae Ceaucescu
Enver Hoxha
Mihail Gorbachov
Janos Kadar
Todor Zhivkov.
Gustáv Husák
Wojciech Jaruzelski

10. These people played an important and active role in the
collapse of Communism in Europe. Link properly these data
and pictures with arrows
He was politician
She was politician
He was electrician
and syndicalist
He was an
intellectual
He was the Pope
He was engineer
electrician
He was actor and
politician
Lech Walesa
Vaclav Havel
Karol Woijtyla
Boris Yeltsin
Petre Roman
Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher

11. Try to identify the country, the figures and the events explaing
them briefly