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