WorksheetsSoviet Union & its Collapse
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
In terms of Soviet history, what's important about 1922 & 1933?
Germany and the U.S., respectively, recognize the Soviet Union.
The Bolsheviks led a revolution.
Gorbachev becomes president.
Chernobyl disaster happened.
What did Gorbachev hope to accomplish by introducing glasanost and perestroika?
Causing the Soviet Union to collapse.
Making USSR a more productive and prosperous nation.
Introducing new styles of art and architecture.
Getting rid of the last Czar.
Which of these was an attempt to loosen government's grip on the economy?
Glasnost
Perestroika
Five Year Plan
Collectivization
______________________believed that a better Soviet economy depended on better relationships with the rest of the world, especially the United States.
Stalin
Gorbachev
Lenin
Putin
Why did the Soviets spend millions on nuclear weapons right after WWII?
To keep their people under control.
To rival the USA who had just dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
To be prepard to attack the Ukraine.
To try and get their empire back.
Which of these is NOT a top reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Lead poisoning
Chernobyl disaster
Nuclear weapon build-up
The difficulty of uniting diversity
One of the factors leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union was that wealth was NOT distributed equally like Lenin and Marx wanted. Which of these statistics is true regarding a shove towards collapse of the USSR?
80% were poor; 20% super rich
50% were poor; 40% middle class; 10% rich
80% were super rich; 20% poor
Gorbachev gave the 14 republics freedoms to be their own cultures, which is one of the main contributing factors to the collapase of the Soviet Union.
True
False
Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?
To try and spread more communism.
To get this wayward, lost republic back under its control.
Because they thought there were Nazis there.
To control the Taliban.
How did the US deal with the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan?
Imposed economic sanctions.
They trained jihadists who became known as the Taliban to fight off the soviets.
Sent nuclear weapons.
The US did nothing.
The fact that Gorbachev allowed non-communist parties to be a part of the government system slowly destabilized communist control in Soviet Russia which marked the beginning of the end.
True
False
Which of these was the first Soviet republic to take advantage of the weakness of the USSR, revolt, and declare its independence?
Ukraine
Moldovo
Turkmenistan
Lithuania
Which of these was NOT one of the new fifteen nations created from the former soviet union?
Kazakstan
Estonia
Albania
Azerbaijan
