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