Lesson 2T.2.1

2T.2.1 Crisis in the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 30

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The 20 questions

  1. In which month and year was the East German workers' uprising crushed by Soviet tanks?

    • August 1968
    • December 1970
    • October 1956
    • June 1953

  2. Who was the Polish communist leader who came to power after the Poznan unrest of 1956 and pursued limited reform?

    • Walter Ulbricht
    • Janos Kadar
    • Imre Nagy
    • Wladyslaw Gomulka

  3. Which Hungarian leader was executed after the 1956 revolution, having tried to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Pact?

    • Erno Gero
    • Imre Nagy
    • Janos Kadar
    • Matyas Rakosi

  4. Who replaced Imre Nagy as Hungary's leader after the Soviet intervention of 1956 and governed for decades?

    • Gustav Husak
    • Janos Kadar
    • Erich Honecker
    • Matyas Rakosi

  5. Which leader in Czechoslovakia was replaced in January 1968 by Alexander Dubcek, starting the Prague Spring?

    • Antonin Novotny
    • Walter Ulbricht
    • Boleslaw Bierut
    • Gustav Husak

  6. Which movement in Czechoslovakia in 1968 sought 'socialism with a human face'?

    • The Velvet Revolution
    • The Solidarity movement
    • Charter 77
    • The Prague Spring

  7. Which Soviet doctrine justified intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968 to defend socialism?

    • The Truman Doctrine
    • The Brezhnev Doctrine
    • The Nixon Doctrine
    • The Zhdanov Doctrine

  8. Which human rights declaration was published by Czechoslovak dissidents including Václav Havel in 1977?

    • Helsinki Accords
    • Solidarity Manifesto
    • Prague Spring
    • Charter 77

  9. Which independent trade union was formed in Poland in 1980 under Lech Wałęsa?

    • KOR
    • Charter 77
    • Civic Forum
    • Solidarity

  10. Which General declared martial law in Poland in December 1981 to suppress Solidarity?

    • General Erich Honecker
    • General Gustav Husak
    • General Janos Kadar
    • General Wojciech Jaruzelski

  11. Which East German leader was in power from 1971 and was forced to resign in October 1989?

    • Hans Modrow
    • Egon Krenz
    • Walter Ulbricht
    • Erich Honecker

  12. On which date in 1989 was the Berlin Wall opened, leading to its fall?

    • 3 October
    • 25 December
    • 9 November
    • 13 August

  13. Which country's communist government was overthrown in 1989 in the 'Velvet Revolution'?

    • Bulgaria
    • Albania
    • Romania
    • Czechoslovakia

  14. Which Romanian dictator was overthrown and executed in December 1989?

    • Nicolae Ceausescu
    • Todor Zhivkov
    • Enver Hoxha
    • Josip Broz Tito

  15. Which major event took place in October 1990, formally reuniting East and West Germany?

    • Warsaw Pact creation
    • Yalta Conference
    • Velvet Revolution
    • German reunification

  16. Which doctrine did Gorbachev abandon in 1989, allowing satellite states to choose their own paths?

    • Hallstein Doctrine
    • Brezhnev Doctrine
    • Monroe Doctrine
    • Truman Doctrine

  17. Which Eastern bloc leader was in power in Hungary during the reforms of the 1980s and oversaw the opening of the border with Austria?

    • Karoly Grosz
    • Miklos Nemeth
    • Imre Nagy
    • Janos Kadar

  18. Which military alliance enforced Soviet political and economic dominance over Eastern Europe before 1989?

    • NATO
    • Cominform
    • Comecon
    • Warsaw Pact

  19. Which economic arrangement linked the Soviet satellite states and enabled Soviet control of their trade?

    • The Marshall Plan
    • COMECON
    • NATO
    • The Schengen Agreement

  20. In which year did the Soviet military alliance, the Warsaw Pact, officially dissolve?

    • 1991
    • 1995
    • 1993
    • 1989

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