Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Gorbachev
- Glasnost
- 'Openness'
- Gave people to freedom of speech
- This meant they criticized the
Government, Gorbachev
- Perestroika
- 'Restructuring'
- Reforming the economy
- Did not work, more people lived in the poverty
- Standard of living went down
- Berlin Wall
- Went up in 1961, under Krushchev
- Came down in 1989
- Began the uprisings across Eastern Europe
- Eastern Bloc
- Eastern European countries
began to rise against
communism and the USSR
- Gorbachev, unlike Brezhnev, did not send the tanks in
- This meant that the
countries uprising was a
success and the
Gorbachev had broken up
the Soviet Empire