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