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AP European History Flashcards: The Fall Of Communism

Study The Fall Of Communism in AP European History with focused flashcards that help you recognize the idea, recall the key rule, and apply it in practice-style prompts.

QUESTION

Which event is known as the 'Fall of Communism' in Czechoslovakia?

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ANSWER

The Velvet Revolution. This peaceful transition demonstrated how communist regimes could fall without violence.

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Secondary-source excerpt (scholarly voice, ~100 words): Historians increasingly interpret the fall of European communism as a crisis of legitimacy produced by intertwined economic stagnation and political liberalization. By the late 1970s and 1980s, chronic shortages, technological backwardness, and mounting foreign debt eroded faith in planning. Gorbachev's reforms—perestroika and glasnost—were intended to renovate socialism, yet they weakened the coercive and ideological instruments that had stabilized one-party rule. Equally consequential was Moscow's retreat from enforcing compliance in Eastern Europe, which altered opposition calculations and encouraged negotiated transitions. In this view, 1989 resulted less from a single revolutionary blueprint than from cascading defections across regimes. Which factor best complements the excerpt's argument by linking economic stagnation to political mobilization in the Eastern bloc?
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