USSR
What does USSR stand for.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Who led Yugoslavia until the 1980s?
Tito
Name 3 countries on the east side of the Iron Curtain. Use the names they used at the time. Do not include places inside the Soviet Union.
Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria
Put in order -- oldest first:
a.Germany splits in two.
b. The Russian Revolution
c. Yugoslovia splits into many countries.
d. The beginning of WWI
d, b, a, c
the 90's
Who was the president during the break-up of the Soviet Union?
Gorbachev
How many countries emerged from Yugoslavia?
6
Name 3 countries where communism is practiced today.
China, Cuba, Vietnam, N. Korea
Put in order -- oldest first.
a. Putin is president
b. Stalin is president.
c.Gorbachev is president.
d. Czar Nicholas leads Russia
d, b, c, a
Name 4 of the countries that came out of the USSR whose names DO NOT end in stan.
Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Urkaine, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan
How many countries came out of the Soviet Union?
15
Name a country that emerged from Yugoslavia joined the EU?
Croatia or Slovenia
WWII
a. Yugoslavia breaks into many countries.
b. Gorbachev starts Perestroika and glasnost.
c. Lenin leads the Russia Revolution
d. Russia invades Ukraine
c, b, a, d
Name a hot war that the US was involved in during the Cold War.
Examples: Vietnam or Korean Wars
Who was the leader of Russia who was executed just as the Russian Revolution Started?
Czar Nicholas
In what decade did Yugoslavia break up into many independent countries.
the 90s
What happened to the size of Poland after WWII?
It got bigger.
a. Hitler loses WWII.
b. Czar Nicholas is executed.
c. Gorbachev loses his job.
d. The EU is created.
b, a, d, c
What do you call a situation where both sides are stockpiling weapons?
Arms race
What year was the communist Revolution?
1917
Name 4 countries that came out of Yugoslavia.
Croatia, N. Macedonia, B-H, Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Kosovo
Name a country that split in two in the 1990s.
Czechoslovakia
a. the end of the Vietnam War
b. The Cuban Missile Crisis
c. Germany is reunited.
d. WWII ends
d, b, a, c
What does MAD stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction