Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe quiz

In the Soviet Union, this was the process of eliminating Stalin's more ruthless policies

• detente

• perestroika

• glasnost

• deStalinization

Which of these was NOT a result of "heavy industry" implemented by Stalin in the Soviet Union following WW2?

• USSR had increased housing availability for the people of the USSR

• The Soviets built new power plants

• Soviets built the first space satellite

• Soviets developed a hydrogen bomb

This was a fundamental restructuring of the Soviet economy to be more responsive to consumers as well as having limited free enterprise. It was one of Gorbachev's reforms

• The Berlin Airlift

• policy of containment

• glasnost

• perestroika

The signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties (SALT I and SALT II) occurred during the period of relaxed tension between the USSR and the US called

• proxy war

• domino theory

• Warsaw Pact

• detente

This was a Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues; it was one of Gorbachev's reforms

• perestroika

• glasnost

• deterrence

• satellite state

A policy of killing or forcibly removing an ethnic group from its homeland

• the Great Leap Forward

• emancipation

• ethnic cleansing

• the Berlin Airlift

The General Secretary of the USSR who attempted to reform the country in the 1980s through policies relaxing censorship and economic control

• Stalin

• Gorbachev

• Putin

• Yeltsin

Which of the following territories were NOT part of the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991? You may use the attached map to answer this question.

• Belarus

• Yugoslavia

• Ukraine

• Kazakhstan

Which of the following was NOT a leader of the USSR?

• Yeltsin

• Gorbachev

• Lech Walesa

• Khrushchev

The workers' labor union which drove protests that eventually replaced Poland's Communist government with a democratic one

• Solidarity

• the Congress Party

• the Collective

• Kuomintang