Core Topic 6: How secure was USSR’s control over Eastern Europe, ?

Topic 6: How secure was USSR’s control over Eastern Europe, 1948-1989?


You should be familiar with all of the topics below:

- Soviet control in Hungary
- Cause of the Hungarian Uprising
- The Hungarian Uprising
- Soviet response to the Hungarian Uprising
- Soviet control in Czechoslovakia
- Cause of the Prague Spring
- Soviet response to the Prague Spring
- How similar were events in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968
- Why was the Berlin Wall built
- Why were people leaving East berlin
- Reaction of the West
- Solidarity in Poland
- Success of Solidarity
- Return of Solidarity
- The role of Gorbachev
- Glasnost
- Perestroika
- Actions in Eastern Europe
- The role of other countries
- External factors
- The war in Afghanistan
- The role of the USA
- Who was responsible for the collapse of Soviet power