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