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The Break-up of the USSR/European Union: Sessions 61-62

The Break-up of the USSR/European Union: Sessions 61-62. Warm-up: How did life under communism differ from what Karl Marx had intended? Create a political cartoon (two frames/boxes) that shows how the peoples’ views of communism changed from 1945-1968. Review Teams.

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The Break-up of the USSR/European Union: Sessions 61-62

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  1. The Break-up of the USSR/European Union: Sessions 61-62 Warm-up: How did life under communism differ from what Karl Marx had intended? Create a political cartoon (two frames/boxes) that shows how the peoples’ views of communism changed from 1945-1968.

  2. Review Teams • With your team, complete one of the following paragraphs, including each term listed, to help your classmates in a review of what we’ve discussed so far. • Team 1/Paragraph 1: Prague, Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek, improvements, August, Soviet troops. • Team 2/Paragraph 2: Nikita Khrushchev, “The Thaw”, freedoms, economic problems, deposed. • Team 3/Paragraph 3: NATO, Eastern Europe, United States, Soviet Union, détente, tensions • Team 4/Paragraph 4: 1980s, economic conditions, armed forces, nuclear weapons, Non-Russian republics, rejection.

  3. Vocab • Glasnost: a Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and less censorship of news and information. • Perestroika: the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s. • How do these policies contradict the communist system of government established by Lenin, and enforced by Stalin?

  4. Reading/Web • Read the paragraphs “Modern Eastern Europe” through “Parliamentary Republics”, and take notes in your composition book on what you read. • Read paragraphs under “New Economies” • Creating a web like the one below, summarize economic and social problems Eastern European countries faced after gaining their independence from the USSR. Economic Problems

  5. European Union • Read the article on the European Union, from “Western Europe Today” through “EU Economies” • In your composition notebooks, compose a letter to a non-member country of the European Union, trying to convince them to join the EU. Include the following: • Explain the objective of the EU • Requirements for membership (Why might they be denied membership?) • Benefits of being a member country • The impact membership will have on the citizens of their country.

  6. Homework! • Finish all study guide questions, study for exam • Friday, 03/16 (A day students) • Monday, 03/19 (B day students) • Email me if you are still confused on any study guide questions. • Utilize the wiki page! • Good luck!

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