AP European History / Unit 9: Cold War and Contemporary Europe
9.7 The Fall of Communism
Notes
Solidarity in Poland (Lech Wałęsa); Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika; the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989); the Velvet Revolution (Czechoslovakia); German reunification (1990); the USSR dissolved (1991).
Practice
Solidarity was:
Lech Wałęsa.
The Velvet Revolution happened in:
Peaceful, 1989.
Germany reunified in:
October 1990.
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