Can you name the countries involved with Eastern European communism and its fall from these clues? by diving

Can you name the countries involved with Eastern European communism and its fall from these clues?

created by diving

Enter a country name or abbreviation in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Click any empty or to answer for that location
Enter the country name or the abbreviation shown in parentheses after answer in first column
Source: BBC Mapping the Fall of Communism & others
Also try: I Protest! - Middle East Unrest
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Location on Map (abbreviations shown after answers)
Country 1
Country 2
Country 3
Country 4
Country 5
Country 6
Country 7
Country 8
Country 9

Capital City
Belgrade
Bucharest
Budapest
East Berlin
Moscow
Prague
Sofia
Tirana
Warsaw

National Flag
Flag A
Flag B
Flag C
Flag D
Flag E
Flag F
Flag G
Flag H
Flag I

Leader (last long-term communist leader)
Ramiz Alia
Nicolae Ceauşescu
Mikhail Gorbachev
Erich Honecker
Gustáv Husák
Wojciech Jaruzelski
János Kádár
Josip Broz Tito
Todor Zhivkov

Country Associated With (countries may be repeated)
1956 Revolution
9^th-of-May Constitution
Berlin Wall
Bolesław Bierut
Braşov Rebellion

Country Associated With (countries may be repeated)
Charter 77
Croatian Spring
Enver Hoxha
Glasnost
Great Purge

Country Associated With (countries may be repeated)
Informbiro Period
Joseph Stalin
Mátyás Rákosi
Monday Demonstrations
Nikita Khrushchev
Non-Aligned Movement

Country Associated With (countries may be repeated)
Gomułka's Thaw/ October Revolution
People's House (Casa Poporului)
Prague Spring
Sided with China during Sino-Soviet split
Slobodan Milošević
Solidarity

Country Associated With (countries may be repeated)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Timişoara protest
Tsar Simeon II
Velvet Revolution
Vulko Chervenkov
Walter Ulbricht

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I Protest! - Fall of Communism Quiz

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Created Feb 18, 2011 in History
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	naali:	Feb 18th, 2011 at 13:14 GMT		10 points
	Good quiz, a bit too much time though (enough time to guess when you have no clue...). Also, it woudl be cool if the hint (from the first column) would appear next to the input box, so you don't have to scroll up and down if you have a small screen. Cheers!

	diving:	Feb 18th, 2011 at 18:24 GMT		1 point
	naah - I shortened the time down to 6 minutes, hopefully that's better, I'm not sure if Sporcle will let me make each question show up instead of the column heading, but I'll see if I can find how to do that, if anyone knows how please share

	Michelle100:	Feb 18th, 2011 at 21:40 GMT		1 point
	interesting but needs much more consistency as to whether the short form or full name is accepted otherwise typing in without looking gets very messy

	diving:	Feb 18th, 2011 at 22:04 GMT		0 points
	michelle100 - I was sticking to ISO codes so some were just the first 2 letters of the country, I changed it so that none of the codes are the first 2-letters anymore, but the abbreviations shown in the first column are accepted on every answer

	MikeN:	Feb 19th, 2011 at 02:40 GMT		2 points
	Now if only the rest of the communist regimes would fall.

	adamnvillani:	Feb 19th, 2011 at 06:33 GMT		3 points
	Kind of surprised that you didn't list Enver Hoxha as the last long-term ruler of Albania. I guess it depends on how one defines long-term.

	diving:	Feb 19th, 2011 at 16:19 GMT		2 points
	adamnvillani - you're right that compared to Hoxha, Alia's time in power wasn't that long-term (but compared to Hoxha's 40+ years, few leaders are long-term). With that column I was trying to avoid the various leaders that were in office less than a year at the end of the communist era as a last ditch effort to hold power and I felt that Alia served long enough and was influential enough not to fall into that category. The other question is the ruler of Yugoslavia, after Tito it cycled through many leaders, but how should they be treated when none gathered much power or served more than a year?

	Roman:	Feb 19th, 2011 at 16:21 GMT		2 points
	Accept GDR and German Democratic Republic for East Germany. I typed GDR many many times

	diving:	Feb 19th, 2011 at 16:42 GMT		3 points
	Roman - German Democratic Republic has always been accepted (as has East Germany, Democratic Republic of Germany, and the abbreviation, DD), but I added in GDR & DDR

	JamesSnell:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 09:48 GMT		3 points
	great quiz

	Austerlitz:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 17:19 GMT		14 points
	Being able to recognize languages and language families really helps on this quiz. Germanic names correspond to East Germany, obviously, and Romance names go with Romania.Also Polish has a distinctive look compared to other Slavic languages.

	cupcakes:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 18:21 GMT		0 points
	add on another minute or two

	5daughters:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 21:58 GMT		-3 points
	Great quiz. But another minute or two would make it even better. For crappy typist (such as myself) typing out just Czechoslovakia half a dozen times ate up a minute...

	diving:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 22:10 GMT		4 points
	I suggest using the abbreviations given in the first column as retyping country names gets a bit tedious. I originally had it at 8 minutes, but someone commented that was too long & too many players could just blindly guess ones they didn't know (and the stats seemed to indicate that). If more people think more time is needed I'll increase it.

	munga:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 16:42 GMT		2 points
	I think taking time away was a mistake. There is a lot of information to process and think about.

	diving:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 18:25 GMT		1 point
	I've added an extra minute on making it 7 minutes, I don't want to go up to 8 minuted because I think it led to too much random guessing when I originally had it at 8, hopefully this time is a proper balance

	epicwin:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 19:42 GMT		6 points
	Excellent quiz. However, I associate the term 'October Revolution' with only one thing: Lenin. A bit harsh to not accept USSR for that.

	epicwin:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 19:43 GMT		3 points
	And I'm aware that the October Revolution took place before it was the Soviet Union, but it's about association...

	diving:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 21:21 GMT		2 points
	epicwin - you bring up a good point, I've expanded the description to avoid confusion, thanks

	cms479:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 17:04 GMT		-2 points
	Very cool concept, but it's way too easy to cheat. You can fill in as many countries as you know in one of the categories, then copy/paste them through the rest of the quiz.

	Mayan:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 12:13 GMT		4 points
	Great quiz! I was surprised to learn the Polish trade union is actually known as Solidarity in English. In Germany only the Polish name Solidarność is ever used even though the German word Solidarität isn't any more different than the English one.

	franzfergidon:	Mar 31st, 2011 at 04:36 GMT		2 points
	takes me back to ap euro. i loved that class. i still remember defining slobodan milosevic and josip broz tito in that class!

	JamesSnell:	Oct 15th, 2011 at 11:47 GMT		2 points
	@cms479, I disagree as to cheat you must be doing something against the rules to have an idea of the eastern European nations is to know that is where the USSR was centred. That requires historical knowledge.

	Harvey_Rayson:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 06:01 GMT		2 points
	Good quiz.

	ketchupfanatic:	May 7th, 2013 at 21:50 GMT		0 points
	please give more time

	Pedroia15:	May 7th, 2013 at 22:37 GMT		3 points
	Love love loved this quiz. Difficult but not too challenging; an overall good test of knowledge. One small grammar error to point out, though: the informational bit that appears with the answer to 'Croatian Spring' doesn't need the apostrophe in "1970's". Just "1970s" will do since it isn't possessive.