1. How does the Chernobyl accident demonstrate increasing globalization by the mid-1980s?

2. What does this Solidarity poster tell you about the role of globalization in the unraveling of the Iron Curtain?

3. How did glasnost and perestroika challenge the traditional concept of Soviet communism? Explain why the turn away from communism across Eastern Europe was so sudden. Why was it violent in some countries and peaceful in others?

4. How much of the Cold War decision making was based on Ideology? On military/security concerns? On economic/trade considerations?

5. Did the end of the USSR mean the United States was the only superpower? Or did it completely restructure the international arena?