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WorksheetsFormer Soviet Union Test Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 41mins
These people ruled Russia during the days of the Russian Empire and were usually called by this title:
Tsar
Premier
President
Kaiser
The type of economy where all businesses are privately owned is:
Market
Command
Mixed
Traditional
The type of economy where all businesses are run by the government is:
Market
Command
Mixed
Traditional
The type of economy where the government makes some rules but many businesses are owned privately is:
Market
Command
Mixed
Traditional
The type of economy where nearly everyone is doing SUBSISTENCE level farming (where you are basically just growing enough to feed yourself) is:
Market
Command
Mixed
Traditional
The main advantage of having a market economy is:
Competition lowers prices and improves products
The government sets fair prices
Monopolies never happen
Everyone gets to live on a farm
Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person to truly leave the Earth's atmosphere was a part of this competition:
Space Race
Market Economy
Olympics
World Cup
The Cold War was called "cold" because
The two sides never fought directly
It was fought mostly in frozen Siberia
Every one of the famous battles occurred in wintertime
COLD stood for "Crimean Orange Larger Demand"
The "Breadbasket" refers to these Eastern European countries:
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus
Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
The term used to describe the divide between the Capitalist and Communist parts of Europe is:
the Iron Curtain
the Great Divide
the Gulag
the DMZ
Which region contains Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia?
Baltic States
Breadbasket
South Caucasus
Central Asia
What economic principle was the Soviet Union founded on?
Communism
Capitalism
Feudalism
Anarchism
The large, empty, and beautiful eastern portion of Russia is called:
Siberia
St. Petersburg
Croatia
Crimea
This type of message designed to appeal to the emotions is called:
Propaganda
Montage
Chiaroscuro
Expressionism
This smiling guy is Russia's current and longest serving President.
Putin
Gorbachev
Yeltsin
Stalin
What was one important factor that made it difficult for the Soviet Union to forge a single national identity
The countries had much diversity, which was suppressed
Losing WW II was a blow to national pride
Invasions from China were destabilizing
So many other countries wanted to join
Late in the Soviet Union's life it experienced a long period of poor economic performance called:
the Era of Stagnation
the Great Collapse
the Gilded Age
the Han Dynasty
What type of economy is most common in the world today?
Market
Command
Mixed
Traditional
Which of the following shows Communism in action in the Soviet Union:
Companies compete with one another
The government tried to pay everyone fairly
Everyone lived on private farms
People started their own businesses
The guy on the left led the Bolshevik Revolution, the guy on the right was the USSR's first dictator. Who are they?
Lenin and Stalin
Yeltsin and Putin
Brezhnev and Gorbachev
Eisenstein and Prokofiev
What is it called when one large company becomes the only company that provides a certain product or service?
Monopoly
Battleship
Clue
Candyland
The government stopping two companies from fixing prices would be an example of which type of economy?
Market
Command
Mixed
Traditional
This is the Russian Empire's last Tsar. What was his name?
Nicholas Romanov
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Putin
This is the Soviet Union's last leader, who was also the only one of its leaders to be born during the time that the Soviet Union existed. What was his name?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Lenin
Which Asia country did Russia lose a war with?
China
Vietnam
Mongolia
Japan
