- 1. When did the USSR quit Eastern Europe?
A) 1989
B) 1975
C) 1991
D) 2000
- 2. Which Soviet leader is known for the policy of glasnost and perestroika?
A) Leonid Brezhnev
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Nikita Khrushchev
- 3. Which country was the first to break away from Soviet control in Eastern Europe?
A) Czechoslovakia
B) Hungary
C) Poland
D) Romania
- 4. Which Baltic state declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1990?
A) Latvia
B) Estonia
C) Belarus
D) Lithuania
- 5. Which event in Berlin symbolized the end of division between East and West Germany?
A) Berlin Airlift
B) Reunification Day
C) Tear down this wall speech
D) Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 6. Which Eastern European country faced violent protests and a massacre in 1989, leading to the fall of its communist government?
A) Albania
B) Bulgaria
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Romania
- 7. Who was the first democratically elected President of Poland after the fall of communism?
A) Lech Wałęsa
B) Bronisław Komorowski
C) Aleksander Kwaśniewski
D) Andrzej Duda
- 8. What was the name of the Warsaw Pact military intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968?
A) Operation Desert Storm
B) Operation Danube
C) Operation Barbarossa
D) Operation Gladio
- 9. Who was the first non-communist Prime Minister of Hungary after the fall of communism?
A) Gyula Horn
B) Ferenc Gyurcsány
C) József Antall
D) Viktor Orbán
- 10. Which city in East Germany was known for the Monday demonstrations that led to the peaceful revolution in 1989?
A) Berlin
B) Dresden
C) Chemnitz
D) Leipzig
- 11. Which Baltic republics formed a human chain called the Baltic Way in 1989 to demand independence?
A) Lithuania, Belarus, Finland
B) Estonia, Hungary, Poland
C) Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
D) Latvia, Ukraine, Russia
- 12. What was the name of the Czechoslovak leader who implemented the reforms of the Prague Spring and later became President of Czechoslovakia?
A) Alexander Dubček
B) Milan Kundera
C) Václav Havel
D) Gustáv Husák
- 13. Which country had a peaceful revolution known as the Velvet Revolution in 1989?
A) Romania
B) Yugoslavia
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Albania
- 14. In which month and year did the Berlin Wall fall?
A) March 1991
B) August 1988
C) November 1989
D) January 1990
- 15. Who was the first President of Russia following the dissolution of the USSR?
A) Vladimir Putin
B) Boris Yeltsin
C) Dmitry Medvedev
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
- 16. What was the name of the Soviet policy that allowed Eastern European countries more independence in foreign relations during the late 1980s?
A) Sinatra Doctrine
B) Brezhnev Doctrine
C) Monroe Doctrine
D) Truman Doctrine
- 17. Which Eastern European country had a peaceful revolution known as the Singing Revolution in the late 1980s?
A) Estonia
B) Hungary
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Poland
- 18. What was the name of the non-violent resistance movement in East Germany in 1989 that played a key role in bringing about the fall of the Berlin Wall?
A) Summer Uprising
B) Monday Demonstrations
C) Peaceful Protests
D) Freedom Rallies
- 19. Which event in Czechoslovakia led to the eventual collapse of the USSR's control in Eastern Europe?
A) Velvet Revolution
B) Prague Spring
C) Solidarity Movement
D) Hungarian Revolution
- 20. The economic restructuring in the USSR initiated by Gorbachev was called:
A) Détente
B) Solidarity
C) Perestroika
D) Glasnost
- 21. Which country hosted the historic meeting between Gorbachev and Reagan in 1986?
A) France
B) Germany
C) Iceland
D) Switzerland
- 22. What term describes the gradual relaxing of tensions between the US and USSR during the 1970s and 1980s?
A) Cuban Missile Crisis
B) Détente
C) Containment
D) Arms Race
- 23. The fall of the USSR was officially declared on:
A) December 26, 1991
B) October 4, 1990
C) January 1, 1992
D) November 9, 1989
- 24. Which country was the last to leave the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe?
A) Albania
B) Bulgaria
C) Hungary
D) Romania
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