The Bethe Ansatz is an elegant method to solve strongly interacting quantum systems. It has many applications, often quite unexpected. One such is chiral phase transition. Chiral symmetry restoration is a spectacular phenomenon expected to happen in QCD at high enough temperatures and densities, but mapping the phase diagram of QCD is a very difficult problem. Similar phenomena occur in simpler two-dimensional models, some even exactly solvable.The phase diagram can then be explored by powerful techniques of the Bethe Ansatz.