Statistics for Fall of Communism - Timeline

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Answers color-coded by a green-red scale on the quiz's map according to % correct below.

Answer	% Correct
Chernobyl disaster	59%
Fall of the Berlin Wall	33%
Gorbachev assumes power	29%
First call for perestroika	25%
Failed coup against Gorbachev	24%
90% of Ukrainians vote for independence	22%
Reunification of Germany	19%
The Supreme Soviet gives the final approval to the dissolution	17%
Alma-Ata accords: all remaining Soviet republics are included in the CIS	16%
Belavezha accords: Russia, Ukraine and Belarus agree to dissolve the USSR and replace it with the CIS	16%
Election of Boris Yeltsin	16%
Romanian Revolution	16%
Baltic Way: 2 million people demonstrate in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania	14%
Russian Soviets are disbanded	13%
Lithuania is the first republic to secede	10%
Dissolution of the Warsaw Pact	8%
Lithuania is the first republic to hold free elections	6%
Inauguration of Lech Wałęsa	5%