Soviet Leaders Flashcards
What was stalins personality like ?
Paranoid and suspicious.
Who was the soviet dictator at the end of WW2 ?
Stalin
When did Stalin die ?
March 1953
What kind of system succeeded him ?
Rule by equals
What did malenkov champion ?
New course
What was this New Course?
Peace between the superpowers
What was peaceful co-existence
Economic competition between the superpowers
When did Khrushchev become leader of the Soviet Union ?
1955
What did Khrushchev do in 1956?
Send tanks into Hungary
Why was Khrushchev deposed?
Failure in Cuban missile crisis
What was Khrushcheves style?
Bombastic
Who succeed Khrushchev
Brezhnev
When did Khrushchev get deposed
1964
How long was brezehenv in office?
1964-1982
Who succeed Brezhnev ?
Andropov in November 1982
When did Andropov die?
February 1984
Who succeed Andropov?
Chernenko
What invasion did Brezhnev oversee ?
Afghanistan
What was the Brezhenv doctrine ?
That the Soviet Union had the right to interfere in the internal affairs of its satellite states.
Which leader signed the SALT treaties?
Brezehenv
When did Gorbachev assume power ?
1985
What did Gorbachev oversee ?
End of the Cold War
When did the USSR fall?
25th December 1991
