- 1. When did the Soviet split occur?
A) 1945
B) 1969
C) 1991
D) 2003
- 2. Which Soviet leader was in power during the split?
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Vladimir Lenin
D) Nikita Khrushchev
- 3. What was the capital of the Soviet Union before the split?
A) Minsk
B) St. Petersburg
C) Moscow
D) Kiev
- 4. What was the official ideology of the Soviet Union before the split?
A) Capitalism
B) Democracy
C) Marxism-Leninism
D) Monarchism
- 5. What economic policy introduced by Gorbachev contributed to the economic troubles leading up to the Soviet split?
A) Collectivization
B) Five-Year Plan
C) Command Economy
D) Perestroika
- 6. What was the name of the leader of the Soviet Union immediately prior to the split?
A) Brezhnev
B) Andropov
C) Gorbachev
D) Khrushchev
- 7. Which of the following Baltic Republics was the first to declare independence from the Soviet Union?
A) Lithuania
B) Estonia
C) Latvia
D) Kaliningrad
- 8. What was the name of the failed coup attempt in August 1991 that ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
A) November Rebellion
B) October Revolution
C) August Coup
D) July Uprising
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