USSR breaks up into constituent countries - end of Soviet era
- 1. When did the Soviet Union officially dissolve?
A) 1991
B) 1996
C) 1989
D) 1993
- 2. What event is often considered the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union?
A) Chernobyl disaster
B) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
C) Perestroika reforms
D) Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 3. Which Russian city was the scene of an unsuccessful coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991?
A) Kiev
B) Moscow
C) Vladivostok
D) St. Petersburg
- 4. What country was the first to declare independence from the Soviet Union in 1990?
A) Latvia
B) Estonia
C) Ukraine
D) Lithuania
- 5. What term is commonly used to describe the policies of restructuring and openness introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev?
A) Kolkhoz
B) Apparatchik
C) Glasnost
D) Perestroika
- 6. Which Soviet leader was in power during the Chernobyl disaster and perestroika reforms?
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Nikita Khrushchev
C) Leonid Brezhnev
D) Vladimir Lenin
- 7. What was the name of the Russian parliament that played a key role in the events leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
A) Congress of People's Deputies
B) Supreme Soviet
C) State Duma
D) Presidium
- 8. What was the name of the Russian president who succeeded Mikhail Gorbachev following the breakup of the Soviet Union?
A) Dmitry Medvedev
B) Boris Yeltsin
C) Vladimir Putin
D) Sergei Lavrov
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