- 1. When did the USSR officially collapse?
A) 1991
B) 1992
C) 1990
D) 1989
- 2. Who was the last leader of the USSR?
A) Leonid Brezhnev
B) Mikhail Gorbachev
C) Boris Yeltsin
D) Vladimir Putin
- 3. Which agreements led to the dissolution of the USSR?
A) Helsinki Accords
B) Camp David Accords
C) Warsaw Pact
D) Belavezha Accords
- 4. Which Baltic country was the first to declare independence from the USSR?
A) Latvia
B) Lithuania
C) Estonia
D) Ukraine
- 5. What economic policy introduced by Gorbachev aimed to reform the Soviet economic structure?
A) Glasnost
B) Collectivization
C) Titoism
D) Perestroika
- 6. Which event in 1986 had a significant environmental impact on the USSR and contributed to its collapse?
A) Chernobyl disaster
B) Three Mile Island accident
C) Fukushima disaster
D) Love Canal disaster
- 7. What was the name of the Soviet space station that fell to Earth in 1991, symbolizing the end of an era?
A) Salyut
B) Vostok
C) Mir
D) Almaz
- 8. What term is used to describe the process of political openness introduced by Gorbachev?
A) Detente
B) Perestroika
C) Communism
D) Glasnost
- 9. Which country emerged as the largest successor state of the USSR in terms of territory?
A) Ukraine
B) Belarus
C) Kazakhstan
D) Russia
- 10. What was the center of political power in the USSR prior to its collapse?
A) Politburo
B) White House
C) Duma
D) Kremlin
- 11. In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, a significant event leading to the collapse of the USSR?
A) 1989
B) 1991
C) 1987
D) 1990
- 12. What military alliance formed in response to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR?
A) Soviet Union Pact
B) SEATO
C) NATO
D) Warsaw Pact
- 13. Who famously stood on a tank to denounce the coup plotters during the August Coup?
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Vladimir Putin
C) Boris Yeltsin
D) Nelson Mandela
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