- 1. What was the name of the Soviet space station launched in 1971 that set a record for the longest continuous habitation in space at the time?
A) ISS
B) Salyut 1
C) Mir
D) Skylab
- 2. Which Soviet leader signed the SALT I treaty with the United States in 1972?
A) Nikita Khrushchev
B) Mikhail Gorbachev
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Leonid Brezhnev
- 3. Who succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as the leader of the Soviet Union in 1982?
A) Konstantin Chernenko
B) Yuri Andropov
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Viktor Grishin
- 4. What significant event took place in 1989 that led to the end of the Soviet Union?
A) The fall of the Berlin Wall
B) The Cuban Missile Crisis
C) The signing of the Helsinki Accords
D) The Chernobyl disaster
- 5. Which Soviet leader implemented the policies of glasnost and perestroika?
A) Leonid Brezhnev
B) Mikhail Gorbachev
C) Konstantin Chernenko
D) Yuri Andropov
- 6. What was the policy of political openness and transparency that was a key part of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms?
A) Glasnost
B) The Great Purge
C) The Red Square Manifesto
D) Stagnation
- 7. Who famously declared the policy of peaceful coexistence with the West during the Cold War?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Nikita Khrushchev
C) Leonid Brezhnev
D) Boris Yeltsin
- 8. Which term best describes the political atmosphere in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev's leadership in the 1960s?
A) Stagnation
B) Perestroika
C) Thaw
D) Glasnost
- 9. Which Baltic state was the first to declare independence from the Soviet Union in 1990?
A) Latvia
B) Belarus
C) Estonia
D) Lithuania
- 10. In 1969, the Soviet Union and which other country engaged in border clashes along the Ussuri River?
A) United States
B) North Korea
C) Japan
D) China
- 11. Which term best describes the ideological division between the Soviet Union and China in the 1960s?
A) Iron Curtain
B) Comecon
C) Warsaw Pact
D) Sino-Soviet Split
- 12. Which country did the Soviet Union invade in 1968 to suppress the Prague Spring?
A) Poland
B) Hungary
C) East Germany
D) Czechoslovakia
- 13. Who became the first President of the Russian Federation after the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
A) Dmitry Medvedev
B) Vladimir Putin
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Boris Yeltsin
- 14. What was the name of the Soviet economic reform introduced by Alexei Kosygin in 1965?
A) Kosygin Reform
B) New Economic Policy
C) Five-Year Plan
D) Great Leap Forward
- 15. What event in August 1991 led to a failed coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev and hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union?
A) The August Coup
B) The Hungarian Revolution
C) The Prague Spring
D) The Velvet Revolution
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