8.1 - Ending of the CW 84-95: Internal problems in Eastern Europe

Question 1

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE USSR

Answer 1

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE USSR

Question 2

What was in very short supply in the USSR?

Answer 2

Consumer goods

Question 3

What was there a concentration on in the USSR’s economy?

Answer 3

Heavy industry at the expense of consumer goods

Question 4

How much aid were Cuba and Vietnam receiving each year?

Answer 4

$1 billion

Question 5

Why was there no innovation and foreign investment in the USSR?

Answer 5

There was a state monopoly on business

Question 6

What was the size of the Soviet GDP as a % of the US GDP?

Answer 6

37%

Question 7

What was the size of the Soviet GNP as a % of the US GNP?

Answer 7

52%

Question 8

What % of its GDP was the USA spending on the military in 1989?

Answer 8

7%

Question 9

What % of its GDP was the USSR spending on the military in 1989?

Answer 9

27%

Question 10

How much was the USA spending on defence in 1989?

Answer 10

$254 billion

Question 11

How much was the USSR spending on defence in 1989?

Answer 11

$134 billion

Question 12

How much of its revenue did the government lose in its anti-alcohol campaign?

Answer 12

1/3

Question 13

What % of grains did the USSR produce in comparison to the USA despite having 75% more farmland?

Answer 13

2/3

Question 14

How many more farm workers did the USSR have than the USA?

Answer 14

8 times

Question 15

What was one of the biggest challenges facing the Eastern European economy?

Answer 15

Lack of technical innovation

Question 16

How much did East Germany owe Western banks by 1981?

Answer 16

$12.8 billion

Question 17

What was the GDP per capita in the Soviet Union in 1989?

Answer 17

$2700

Question 18

What was the GDP per capita in the USA in 1989?

Answer 18

$22,600

Question 19

What was the GDP per capita in West Germany in 1989?

Answer 19

$18,000

Question 20

What agricultural policy was very ineffective?

Answer 20

Collectivisation

Question 21

AFGHANISTAN WAR

Answer 21

AFGHANISTAN WAR

Question 22

What type of war was the war in Afghanistan?

Answer 22

Guerrilla war

Question 23

What is the USSR estimated to have spent on the war in Afghanistan?

Answer 23

$50 billion

Question 24

What is the number of official casualties of Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan?

Answer 24

15,000

Question 25

What is the CIA estimate for the number of Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan?

Answer 25

50,000

Question 26

What became a growing political force?

Answer 26

The veterans

Question 27

In 1989, where did men refuse to be conscripted?

Answer 27

The Baltic republics and Georgia

Question 28

What were Soviet citizens being told was happening in Afghanistan?

Answer 28

Soldiers were building schools and roads

Question 29

What did the war in Afghanistan show the rest of Eastern Europe?

Answer 29

That the Soviet army could not easily crush any attempt to break away

Question 30

What did Gorbachev describe the war as in 1986?

Answer 30

A ‘bleeding wound’

Question 31

What programme did the CIA fund from 1979 to arm and train mujahideen fighters?

Answer 31

Operation Cyclone

Question 32

When did the muhajideen receive stinger missiles from the USA?

Answer 32

1986

Question 33

How many muhajideen fighters did the USA train over the course of the war?

Answer 33

100,000

Question 34

How much did the USA spend in supporting anti-Soviet resistance?

Answer 34

$20 billion