33.2 Eastern Europe & Soviet Union

[Preview] Which image shows Czechoslovakia and Hungary?

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[p1] Which of these were evidence of the Soviet Union's "spectacular" economic recovery after WWII?

THREE of these are correct.

• Industrial production surpassed prewar levels by 40%

• Soviet scientists invented the Internet

• Heavy industry increased

• The Soviets built the hydrogen bomb in 1953 & the first space satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957

• A Russian engineer, Pavel Chekov, joined the Federation Space Fleet aboard the USS Enterprise

[p1] Which of these were evidence that the Soviet Union was not thriving economically after WWII?

TWO of these are correct.

• New power plants & canals were built

• Consumer goods production did not increase as much as heavy industry

• Workers faced severe housing shortages

• Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space

[p1] (a)   ruled the Soviet Union with sole power in a regime of terror.

Enter his six-letter last name only.

[p1] After Stalin's death in 1953, who emerged as the chief Soviet policy maker?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Boris Yeltsin

• Vladimir Lenin

• Vladimir Putin

[p1 + Key Terms] The process of eliminating the more ruthless policies of Stalin became known as...

• heavy industry

• de-Stalinization

• detente

• dissidents

[p2] What happened to the Soviet industrial growth rate under Nikita Khrushchev?

• It increased sharply due to the emphasis on agricultural output.

• It increased slightly due to the emphasis on industrial output.

• It declined sharply due to the emphasis on agricultural output.

• It declined slightly due to the emphasis on industrial output.

[p2] After the Cuban missile crisis, Soviet leaders forced out Khrushchev. ________ emerged as the dominant leader of the USSR in the 1970s.

• Alexei Kosygin

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Ronald Reagan

• Andrei Sakharov

[p2 + Key Terms] Before 1979, there was a period of relaxed U.S.-Soviet tensions, or _______________.

• Dissidents

• Prague Spring

• Detente

• de-Stalinization

[p2 + Key Terms] ________________ are people who speak out against a regime.

• Dissidents

• Detente

• Imre Nagy

• Prague Spring