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WorksheetsU.S.S.R. history
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe after WWII ($13 billion to W and S Europe)
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Cold War
Warsaw Pact (1955)
Done in 1948 to supply food and fuel to the citizens of West Berlin when the Soviet Russians closed off land access.
Iron Curtain
Mikhail Gorbachev
Warsaw Pact
Berlin Airlift
A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
Socialism
Domino Theory
Communism
Command Economuy
The American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
capitalism
NATO
Volga River
Containment
Capital of Russia today
Stalingrad
St. Petersburg
Sochi
Moscow
What event symbolized the fail of communism and the Soviet Union in 1989?
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Cold War
Iron Curtain
Berlin Airlift
Which government form wants society, in the form of the government, to own and control the means of production?
capitalism
socialism
communism
fascism
The reason why it was called Cold War.
The two sides went skiing and played hockey to determine the winner.
The two sides never actually confronted each other on the battlefield.
If Nuclear Weapons were used they would create nuclear winter.
1962 event when the U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President JFK demanded their removal, and he announced a naval blockade on the island. Closest we came to nuclear war.
Sputnik
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Airlift
Who was the first leader of the Communists and lead the revolution to overthrow the Russian Czar and set up the new government as USSR?
Trotsky
Stalin
Gorbachev
Lenin
What was President Truman's 1947 policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian rule?
Putin your money where your mouth is
Truman Doctrine
Glasnost
Perestroika
Wars that the U.S. took part in to stop Domino Theory.
Putin and Yeltsin
Korean and Vietnam
Civil and Revolutionary
Warsaw and Berlin
Socialism gone wrong or government in which a single political party controls the government and economy.
capitalism
containment
communism
socialism
Country that was divided in half after WWII and caused problems between USSR and other countries.
France
Russia
USA
Germany
The name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas during the Cold War: Western Democracy and Eastern Communism.
Iron Maiden
Berlin Airlift
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
The first man-made satellite put into orbit by the USSR. Caused fear in the US and made us launch satellites and be the first to walk on the moon in 1969.
Cuban Missle Crisis
Berlin Wall
Vola Confrontration
Sputnik
Frozen land in northern Russia that is rich in resources and full of forests and wild-life and some tundra.
Berlin Wall
Volga River
Siberia
Gulag
An economic system based on private ownership of capital and businesses. (Anyone can make it big in theory.)
Capitalism
Communism
Socialism
Containment
The period of tense rivalry between the Soviet Union and US, marked by an arms race between the two countries.
Marshall Plan
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Domino Theory
Type of economy the USA has and now present day Russia does too
Market Economy
Volga River
Berlin Airlift
Iron Curtain
Longest river in Europe and Russia's most important commercial river.
Iron Curtain
Volga River
Siberia
Lena River
Year the Soviet Union changed and was known simply as Russia.
1980
2020
1991
1985
Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. He lost power after his reforms (Glasnost and Perestroika) led to the collapse of Communist governments.
Yeltsin
Kruschev
Putin
Gorbachev
True or False: When Russia was the USSR it had a Command / Communism economy.
True
False
Name for the alliance between Russia and Eastern communist countries against WEstern capitalist countries
Berlin Alliance
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Axis Powers
The fall of this thing which divided East and West Berlin was symbolism of the fall of Communism.
Berlin Wall
Iron Curtain
Mikhail Gorbachev
NATO
Check all that describe Stalin
purged political opponents through execution or exile
First leader of the Communists and lead the revolution to overthrow the Russian Czar and start the USSR.
Name of the Soviet dictator who used fear and intimidation to control his citizens and led during WWII.
Lead Soviet Union during the entire Cold War.
Check all that apply to Putin
Current leader of Russia
Led Russia during the Cold War
It's been proven he hacked our elections
Has a cult following by Russian people for being a rugged, outdoorsman and strong leader.
Which best describes NATO?
North American Treaty Organization
alliance made to defend one another if attacked by Communist countries.
alliance made to defend one another if attacked by Capitalist countries
Russia, USA, China, India, Pakistan, England, France, North Korea.
Check all that apply for USSR:
Russia's name before 1991
Lost the Cold War
First to launch a satellite into space.
Had a Communist government and economy
