Josef Stalin held the top leadership title of what political role?
General Secretary
Leonid Brezhnev succeeded which Soviet leader in 1964?
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev won this international award in 1990 for efforts to end the Cold War
Nobel Peace Prize
Nikita Khrushchev succeeded who in 1953 as First Secretary?
Josef Stalin
Leonid Brezhnev
Josef Stalin's policies eliminated many political rivals during this 1930s campaign
The Great Purge
Leonid Brezhnev signed this major arms control agreement with Richard Nixon in 1972
SALT I (Strategic Arms Liberation Treaty)
This 1986 incident tested Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of openness
Chernobyl Disaster
Sputnik 1
Hungary
Josef Stalin opposed this U.S. financial aid program to Europe after World War II, establishing important connection to the Cold War.
Marshall Plan
Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet military invasion of this country in 1968 marked enforcement for the Brezhnev Doctrine
Czechoslovakia
In December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev initiated this agreement which formally dissolved the Soviet Union
Belavezha Accords
Nikita Khrushchev had this spy plane shot down in 1960. What was the name of the pilot and the plane?
Gary Powers and U-2
After the death of Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov sought to increase Soviet ties with this communist country
China
Josef Stalin's policies directly led to this 1932-1933 famine in Soviet Ukraine known as the what?
Holodomor
Leonid Brezhnev's tenure had the USSR sign the 1971 Four Power Agreement concerning which city?
Berlin
Helmut Kohl
Nikita Khrushchev's infamous "shoe-banging" occurred in 1960 at what gathering?
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
Yuri Andropov was heavily criticized for the deaths of the foreign civilians apart of
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Josef Stalin established this information office in 1947 to coordinate communist parties worldwide
Cominform
Leonid Brezhnev's regime coordinated with East German Stasi under this KGB program
Collaboration Agreement of 1978
Mikhail Gorbachev launched this 1988 United Nations speech calling for reduced Soviet troops in Eastern Europe
UN Address on New Thinking
Nikita Khrushchev supported this African nation's independence from Belgian colonial rule
Congo (Léopoldville)
Yuri Andropov's surveillance extended to this group advocating for civil rights within the USSR
Moscow Helsinki Group