Changes in Eastern Europe, 1989–1993
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Compile a chronology of six important events of 1989–1993.
For example: June 1989 – Polish election; 9 November – Berlin Wall; December – Romania; 3 October 1990 – Germany; 1991 – independence of Slovenia and Croatia; 1 January 1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia.
2
Compare Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in a table by “method of separation, casualties, outcome”.
Czechoslovakia – agreement, no war, two states; Yugoslavia – wars (1991–1999), heavy casualties, several independent states.
3
Write the six republics of Yugoslavia and give their present names.
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia (now North Macedonia, since 2019).
4
Write three benefits and three costs of the transition to a market economy for Eastern Europe.
Benefits: more goods, access to the EU market, new professions. Costs: unemployment, rising prices, inequality, emigration.