WorksheetsUSSR Timeline Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
When did the Bolshevik Revolution take place?
1914
1917
1921
1924
At which event were internal party factions banned in 1921?
The 8th Party Congress
The 9th Party Congress
The 10th Party Congress
The 11th Party Congress
Who did Lenin's Last Testament (1923) recommend be removed from their role within the Communist leadership?
Bukharin
Kamenev
Trotsky
Stalin
What was the name of the policy introduced by Stalin from 1928 to rapidly industrialise the Soviet Union?
New Economic Policy
Five-Year Plans
Perestroika
Glasnost
During Stalin's reign, what was the term used for the political purges that took place in the 1930s?
The Great Leap Forward
The Great Purge
The Cultural Revolution
The Red Terror
Which of the following leaders were not killed in Stalin's show trials of 1936-8?
Trotsky
Bukharin
Kamenev
Zinoviev
Which event is considered the starting point of the Cold War?
The Yalta Conference
The Berlin Blockade
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Potsdam Conference
Three years after Stalin's death in 1953, who gave a 'Secret Speech' denouncing his methods?
Dwight Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Nikita Khrushchev
John F Kennedy
What was the main objective of Khrushchev's Thaw?
To increase military spending
To promote cultural and intellectual freedom
To expand Soviet territory
To strengthen the KGB
Which event in 1962 led to the creation of the hotline between the Kremlin and the White House?
The Bay of Pigs Fiasco
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Three Mile Island Disaster
The Chernobyl Disaster
Who was the Soviet leader during the period of Détente?
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
The Helsinki Accords of 1975 committed the USSR to the recognition of which of the following?
Ukrainian independence
Human Rights of dissidents
Parliamentary democracy
Free market capitalism
What was the primary goal of Gorbachev's policy of Perestroika?
To increase agricultural production
To reform the economic and political system
To expand the Soviet military
To annex neighbouring countries
Which policy introduced by Gorbachev aimed at increasing transparency and freedom of information in the USSR?
Glasnost
Perestroika
Collectivisation
War Communism
In which year did the dissolution of the USSR officially occur?
1989
1990
1991
1992
