WORLD HISTORY

POST COLD WAR WORLD

INTEGRATION OF EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why might admitting former Communist countries into the European Union cause tension?
A
Former Communist countries are very prosperous.
B
Former Communist countries have little experience with democracy.
C
Former Communist countries have Russian as their main language.
D
Former Communist countries are very nationalistic.
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).

Detailed explanation-2: -Communism’s failure in Eastern Europe and revolution Gorbachev’s abandonment of the Brezhnev Doctrine (which called on the Soviet Union to intervene in countries where socialist rule was under threat) meant unlike previous occasions, the USSR no longer had the means or will to impose military control.

Detailed explanation-3: -Workers could move freely between nations. How did the collapse of communism affect the European Union? It caused the European Union to expand as more nations joined. It caused the European Union to change its economic policies.

Detailed explanation-4: -By the summer of 1990, all of the former communist regimes of Eastern Europe were replaced by democratically elected governments. In Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, newly formed center-right parties took power for the first time since the end of World War II.

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