WORLD HISTORY

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INTEGRATION OF EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The countries that joined the European Union after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 were former ____ countries.
A
communist
B
democratic
C
muslim
D
capitalist
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In Western Europe, the term Eastern Bloc generally referred to the USSR and Central and Eastern European countries in the Comecon (East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania). In Asia, the Eastern Bloc comprised Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, North Korea and China.

Detailed explanation-2: -Warsaw Pact Members-The Warsaw Pact included the Soviet Union, Romania, Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Albania.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main region of these revolutions was in Eastern Europe, starting in Poland with the Polish workers’ mass strike movement in 1988, and the revolutionary trend continued in Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.

Detailed explanation-4: -Find out more about East Germany, 1989 On 4 November, a month after the East German protests had begun, around half a million people gathered in Alexanderplatz in the heart of East Berlin.

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