Worksheets33.2 Eastern Europe & Soviet Union
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 2hrs 35mins
[Preview] Which image shows Czechoslovakia and Hungary?
[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
[p3] In the 1970s, Communist Party leaders in the Soviet Union...
were disgusted with economic failures and forced Leonid Brezhnev out.
dissolved the Soviet Union into separate states.
benefited from the corrupt system by living well.
introduced capitalism in an effort to turn the economy around.
[p3] "Détente collapsed in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan." How did US President Jimmy Carter respond to the Soviet invasion?
Carter started an arms race.
Carter canceled US participation in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
Carter imported grain from the Soviet countries.
Carter reunited East & West Germany.
[p3] President Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and ...
provided aid to Afghan rebels.
called the Chinese a “dragon empire.”
reduced the U.S. standing military.
promoted the Brezhnev Doctrine.
[p4] What TWO Eastern European countries were Communist states, but "exceptions" to the pattern of Soviet domination that existed elsewhere?
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Albania
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[p4] ____________ created an independent Communist state in Yugoslavia and refused to give in to Stalin's demands.
Josip Broz Tito
Imre Nagy
Natan Sharansky
Ronald Reagan
[p5] _______ was the Hungarian leader in 1956. He promised free elections, but was arrested & executed by the Soviet military.
Władysław Gomułka
Imre Nagy
Josip Broz Tito
Antonín Novotný
[p5] After Antonín Novotný was forced to resign in 1968, _________ became leader in Czechoslovakia.
Alexander Dubcek
Gustav Husák
Imre Nagy
Antonín Novotný
[p5] The period of hope and promise in Czechoslovakia following Communist Party reforms was called the ___________.
Prague Spring
Detente
De-Stalinization
Warsaw Pact
[Review + Summarizing] Eastern European countries like Poland, Hungary, & Czechoslovakia attempted democratic reforms after Stalin's death. How did the Soviet Union respond to these reform efforts?
The Soviets used military force to crush the reforms and arrest the leaders.
The Soviets negotiated new trade deals with each country to keep Soviet markets.
The Soviets allowed the reforms because they feared American intervention.
