The Collapse of the Soviet Union Essay Bucketing Worksheet

Essential Question: How did internal conflicts lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union? What role, if any, did President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev play in the end of the U.S.S.R.? Understanding the Question:
1. What is the question being asked? 2. What terms in the question need to be defined? 3. Rewrite the question in your own words.

Organizing your Evidence:

1. What were the three main problems that caused the collapse of the Soviet Union? 2. What did Mikhail Gorbachev propse to fix these problems? What did they accomplish? 3. What influence did Reagan and Gorbachev have on the collapse of the Soviet Union?

Pre-Bucketing:
Directions: Using the evidence you have collected from the text and from the speeches, think of possible analytical categories for your body paragraphs and label each bucket. Next, insert evidence from your readings into the appropriate bucket.