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SOVIET UNION

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The first satellite launched into space was called ?

a)

Apollo

b)

Discovery

c)

Sputnik

d)

NCS - 421

2.

The first country to put a woman into space was ?

a)

United States

b)

Soviet Union (Russia)

c)

Great Britain

d)

China

3.

What is the purpose of the Soviet Union's satellite nations?

a)

To provide them with more resources.

b)

To act as a buffer (protection) for future wars.

c)

To provide slave labor for concentration camps.

4.

The Soviet Union was around for 69 years. From _________ to __________.

a)

1941 to 2010

b)

1930 to 1999

c)

1922 to 1991

d)

1920 to 1989

5.

_______________ was the leader of the Russian Revolution and Established the Soviet Union.

a)

Josef Stalin

b)

Leon Trotsky

c)

Vladimir Lenin

d)

Karl Marx

6.

The Soviet Union was a ___________________ country.

a)

Capitalist

b)

Socialist

c)

Communist

7.

The Cold War started after _____________ between ______________, and _______________.

a)

WW1 between China, and the Soviet Union

b)

WW2 between China, and the Soviet Union

c)

WW1 between the USA, and the Soviet Union

d)

WW2 between the USA, and the Soviet Union

8.

Russia is more than twice the size of the United States?

a)

True

b)

False

9.

In 1980 the Soviet Union had a larger military and more weapons than the United States.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Josef Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union was a ...

a)

Nice Guy

b)

Cruel Dictator

c)

Democratically elected President

d)

King

11.

Stalin used labor camps, called Gulags, as a method of punishing political competitors and _________ _________, because they did not support communism.

a)

Rich Doctors

b)

Poor Mechanics

c)

Rich Farmers

d)

Poor Teachers

12.

How many people died in Stalin's labor camps (Gulags)?

a)

around 2 million

b)

around 5 million

c)

around 20 million

d)

no body died

13.

Who was the first president of the Soviet Union?

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Stalin

c)

Gorbachev

d)

Lenin

14.

What political party was Lenin first in?

a)

Bolshevik Party

b)

Chinese Communist Party

c)

BUF

d)

Russian Independence Party

15.

Which of these books did Lenin write?

a)

The Communist Manifesto

b)

The "Little Red Book"

c)

On Anarchism

d)

What is to be done?

16.

Who was president of the Soviet Union directly after Stalin?

a)

Gorbachev

b)

Khrushchev

c)

Malenkov

d)

Andropov

17.

What initiative of homeland affairs was Khrushchev most famous for?

a)

Marshall Aid

b)

Brezhnev Doctrine

c)

De-Stalinisation

d)

Prague Spring Reforms

18.

Who was the final president of the Soviet Union?

a)

Khrushchev

b)

Gorbachev

c)

Chernenko

d)

Andropov

19.

What does USSR mean?

a)

Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics

b)

United States Special Relations

c)

United States of Socialist Russia

d)

Unitiado de Siacso Salvador Roosci

20.

What was the capital

a)

Moscow

b)

St. Petersburg

c)

Leningrad

d)

None of the above

21.

When was the Soviet Union formed

a)

December 26,1991

b)

December 30,1922

c)

December 17, 1917

d)

None of the above

22.

What is true

a)

The Soviet Union was capitalistic

b)

Communism allowed a free economic system

c)

The Soviet Union was formed after The Russian Revolution

d)

None of the above

23.

Select the countries that were in the Soviet Union.

a)

Uzbekistan

b)

Estonia

c)

Poland

d)

Belarus

24.

The Soviet Union Was In...

a)

Eurasia

b)

Asia

c)

Europe

d)

None of the above

25.

When did the Soviet Union fall

a)

December 30, 1922

b)

August 15, 1990

c)

December 26, 1991

d)

November 19, 1992

26.

Communism was going to...

a)

Remove private property

b)

Let the government have too much control

c)

Overthrow capitalism and remove the class structure

d)

All of the choices

e)

None of the choices

27.

This symbol means...

a)

The unity of the workers. The hammer is the industrial workers and the sickle is the workers in the fields

b)

The hammer is power and the sickle is efficiency

c)

The symbol has too many meanings

d)

None of the above