QUESTIONS: 1. How do you think the United States viewed Mikhail Gorbachev? Why?
2. In your opinion, how would Karl Marx view Gorbachev's policies?
3. Why did Eastern European nations begin to declare their independence in the late
1980s?
4. Do you think Gorbachev could have prevented the collapse of the Soviet Empire?
5.What could he have done differently?

The tea party movement is a. an official third party that challenges both democrats and republicans in national elections. b. an organized challenge to incumbents in the republican party by the most conservative wing of the republican party. c. an organized challenge to incumbents in the democratic party by the most liberal wing of the democratic party. d. an offspring of the green party that runs for state and local office in many midwestern states. e. the now defunct party that gave way to the republican party at the end of the “second party system.”