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