Tuesday, May 11, 2010

HW 5/11 Ch. 35, Sec. 3 & 4

Read Chapter 35, Sections 3 & 4 in your textbook and complete the tasks listed below for each section.

Due: Thursday, 5/13*

*This assignment will not be accepted late. Failure to hand in your work on or before the due date will result in a zero for these assignments.

Chapter 35, Section 3:

1. Identify the following terms:

a. Politburo
b. Mikhail Gorbachev
c. glasnost
d. Perestroika
e. Solidarity
f. Lech Walsea
g. reunification

2. For each country discussed in the reading, identify:

a. Reforms that were made
b. Leaders of the reform (Hungary is the only country without a leader listed)
c. The results of these reforms.

You are free to create a chart to organize this information or write about these reforms in paragraph format.


Chpater 35, Section 4:

1. Identify the following terms:

a. Boris Yeltsin
b. "shock therapy"

2. In SRF Format:

Discuss the economic and cultural challenges faced by the former Soviet Union (including Russia and other territories) in the Yeltsin Era. You must include concepts about "shock therapy" and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.

REMEMBER: THIS ASSINGMENT IS DUE ON THURSDAY AND CANNOT BE HANDED IN LATE.