Unit 18: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Europe
Topic 18.18: Post-war central and eastern Europe (1945–2000) Questions
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In which year was COMECON founded?
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Discuss the social challenges faced by any one central or eastern European country during its transition away from communism.
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Analyse the impact of economic crisis on political change in central and eastern Europe in the period 1989–2000.
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Discuss the view that the year 1989 represented a turning point in twentieth-century European history.
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Examine the reasons for the imposition of Soviet control over central and eastern Europe between 1945 and 1949.
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Discuss the role of economic and military structures, COMECON and the Warsaw Pact, in maintaining Soviet control over central and eastern Europe.
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Examine the causes of the collapse of Soviet control in central and eastern Europe by 1989.
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To what extent was Yugoslavia's break from Soviet control in 1948 due to the unique position of Josip Broz Tito?
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Compare and contrast the causes and outcomes of the 1953 East German uprising and the 1968 Prague Spring.
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Discuss the reasons why the collapse of communism in 1989 was largely peaceful in most of central and eastern Europe but violent in Romania.
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Evaluate the importance of Western policy in explaining the survival of Soviet control in central and eastern Europe between 1953 and 1968.
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Discuss the role of international intervention (or its absence) in shaping the course of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
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To what extent did popular uprisings between 1953 and 1968 threaten the survival of Soviet control in central and eastern Europe?
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Evaluate the successes and failures of economic 'shock therapy' as a strategy for post-communist transition, with reference to any one country.
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Examine the reasons for, and consequences of, the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995.
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Analyse the political challenges faced by any one central or eastern European state in the decade following the collapse of communism.
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Compare and contrast the collapse of communist rule in Poland and Romania in 1989.
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To what extent did the wars in the former Yugoslavia change the practice of international humanitarian intervention?
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Analyse the causes and significance of the Prague Spring of 1968.
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Evaluate the methods used by the Soviet Union to establish one-party communist states in central and eastern Europe by 1949.
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