Which Is Most True of the Communist States by the 1980s

question 46

Multiple Choice

Which is most true of the communist states by the 1980s and 1990s?

• A) They were uniform in character.
• B) They were subservient to the USSR.
• C) They had never engaged in an armed conflict with another communist state.
• D) Deep divisions had appeared among communist states.
• E) The collapse of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact states was widely foreseen and predicted in the 1980s.

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Spreading Activation

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Visuospatial Sketchpad

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Atkinson and Shiffrin Model

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