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  • What were some of the things the workers were demanding in Poland?
    Better working conditions, higher salaries, lower prices
  • How did the leader of East Berlin justify building the wall?
    They were protecting their side of Berlin from capitalist influence
  • What did the Western powers think about the Berlin Wall?
    That it was a prison wall made to limit the freedom of the citizens of East Berlin
  • Why was the Berlin Wall built?
    To prevent people from leaving the East
  • Why did people start leaving East Berlin?
    Because the conditions in the West were much better
  • Why did Poland's first independent trade union fail?
    The government started seeing it as a political opponent
  • Why were people in some Eastern Europe countries able to demand some change?
    Stalin had been replaced by Khrushchev, who was more "flexible"
  • Who was the leader of the first independent trade union in Poland?
    Lech Walesa
  • What were some of the things people were demanding in Hungary?
    Freedom of speech, less censorship, removal of Russian tanks
  • What was the name of the only opening in the Berlin Wall?
    Checkpoint Charlie
  • What was the name of the first independent trade union in Poland?
    Solidarity
  • Who was Dubcek?
    Leader in Czechoslovakia who proposed socialism with a human face
  • What changes were being asked in Czechslovakia?
    Freedom of speech, a new political party, ability to criticise the government publicly, less Russian control
  • How did the Russians react to the changes being asked in Hungary?
    They agreed to most of them until they thought the country would stop being communist; then they invaded it
  • What finally happened with Poland's trade union?
    It was banned; its leaders were imprisioned and martial court was introduced
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