Soviet Union

Question 1

Soviet Union was?

Answer 1

SOVIET UNION WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTORS IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM DURING THE 20TH CENTURY

Question 2

SOVIET UNION EXISTED AS A COUNTRY BETWEEN ___ AND ___

Answer 2

1922 and 1991

Question 3

SOVIET UNION OTHERWISE KNOWN AS UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (USSR) WAS BUILT UPON THE SUCCESSFUL REVOLUTION THAT HAPPENED IN RUSSIA IN 1917 called

Answer 3

The Russian revolution

Question 4

THE 1917 RUSSIAN/BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION WAS SPEARHEADED BY

Answer 4

THE 1917 RUSSIAN/BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION WAS SPEARHEADED BY VLADMIR LENIN, JOSEF STALIN AND LEON TROTSKY

Question 5

THE 1917 REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA PUT AN END TO ?

Answer 5

THE 1917 REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA PUT AN END TO MONARCHICAL RULE AND USHERED IN COMMUNISM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY

Question 6

SOVIET UNION (USSR) ALONG SIDE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA EMERGED VICTORIOUS AFTER WORLD WAR II. BOTH COUNTRIES WERE INSTRUMENTAL in ?

Answer 6

IN DEFEATING NAZI GERMANY AND ITS ALLIES

Question 7

What happened after ww2

Answer 7

BY DEFAULT, USSR AND USA BECAME THE 2 SUPERPOWERS IN THE WORLD AFTER THE END OF WW II IN 1945

SOVIET UNION BECAME THE LEADER OF THE COMMUNIST BLOC WHILE AMERICA BECAME THE LEADER OF THE CAPITALIST BLOC

Question 8

Countries under the eastern bloc

Answer 8

COUNTRIES IN EASTERN EUROPE, CENTRAL EUROPE AND SOME COUNTRIES IN AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST AND LATIN AMERICA WERE UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE EASTERN COMMUNIST BLOC CHAMPIONED BY THE SOVIET UNION

Question 9

When did Soviet Union test atomic bomb

Answer 9

IN 1949, SOVIET UNION SUCCESSFULLY TESTED ATOMIC BOMB

Question 10

When did Soviet Union LAUNCH THE WARSAW PACT AS A DEFENSE MECHANISM TO PROTECT COMMUNIST COUNTRIES MOST ESPECIALLY IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE

Answer 10

IN 1953, SOVIET UNION LAUNCHED THE WARSAW PACT AS A DEFENSE MECHANISM TO PROTECT COMMUNIST COUNTRIES MOST ESPECIALLY IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE

Question 11

When did Soviet Union land get to outer space and us land on the moon

Answer 11

IN 1957, SOVIET UNION BECAME THE 1ST COUNTRY TO GET TO OUTER SPACE WHILE AMERICA BECAME THE 1ST COUNTRY TO LAND ON THE MOON in 1969

Question 12

What was it called

Answer 12

The space race

Question 13

___ SERVED AS THE CAPITAL OF SOVIET UNION BETWEEN 1922 AND 1991

Answer 13

MOSCOW SERVED AS THE CAPITAL OF SOVIET UNION BETWEEN 1922 AND 1991

Question 14

FACTORS THAT LED TO THE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 14

POINT 1: ECONOMIC STAGNATION
ECONOMIC STAGNATION: BY THE 1980s’, THE ECONOMY OF SOVIET UNION BEGAN TO DWINDLE

BECAUSE OF THE CONSERVATIVE NATURE OF COMMUNIST USSR, THE BUREACRATIC BOTTLENECKS AND HIGHLY CENTRALIZED SYSTEM, SOVIET UNION COULD NOT UPDATE ITS TECHNOLOGY CONSISTENTLY UNLIKE THE WESTERN CAPITALIST COUNTRIES

THIS AFFECTED THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AND THE MANUFACTORING SECTOR IN USSR. AS THE ECONOMY PLUMMETED, SOVIET UNION COULD NO LONGER COMPETE FAVOURABLY WITH AMERICA IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC POWER

Question 15

FACTORS THAT LED TO THE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 15

POINT NUMBER 2: REBELLION IN THE EASTERN COMMUNIST BLOC

PRIOR TO THE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION, SOME COUNTRIES IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE BECAME TIRED OF COMMUNISM BECAUSE OF THE RIGID AND CONSERVATIVE NATURE OF COMMUNIST REGIMES

MANY CITIZENS THAT VOICED THEIR VIEWS AGAINST COMMUNISM WERE ARRESTED, BEATEN AND HARASSED BY STATE CONTROLLED SECURITY AGENCIES

Question 16

FACTORS THAT LED TO THE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 16

THE ABSENCE OF FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS IN THESE COMMUNIST COUNTRIES LED TO CALLS FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REFORMS IN COMMUNIST COUNTRIES. IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME FOR COUNTRIES UNDER COMMUNISM TO EMBRACE WESTERN DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM

Question 17

FACTORS THAT LED TO THE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 17

POINT NUMBER 3: THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN CAUSING THE DOWNFALL OF USSR. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEVELOPED PROPANDA PROGRAMMES IN ORDER TO GIVE USSR A BAD IMAGE ALL OVER THE WORLD. AMERICA USED WESTERN MEDIA THROUGH NEWSPAPERS, RADIO STATIONS, TV CHANNELS, MUSIC AND BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES TO PROMOTE AMERICA AND WESTERN CIVILISATION AT THE EXPENSE OF SOVIET UNION AND COMMUNISM

ADDITIONALLY, AMERICA PROMOTED CAPITALIST ECONOMIC MODEL AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AS THE BEST OPTIONS FOR COUNTRIES TO ADOPT

Question 18

FACTORS THAT LED TO THE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 18

POINT NUMBER 4: CORRUPTION

THERE WAS WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION AMONG THE LEADERS IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY THAT CONTROLLED SOVIET UNION. WHILE MOST OF THE CITIZENS GROANED UNDER HARSH ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, SOME HYPOCRITICAL PARTY CHIEFTAINS WERE EMBEZZLING STATE FUNDS AND ASSETS. THIS SITUATION FURTHER WORSENED THE ECONOMY OF SOVIET UNION

Question 19

FACTORS THAT LED TO THE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 19

POINT NUMBER 5: PERESTROIKA AND GLASNOST

TO AID OUR UNDERSTANDING PERESTROIKA STANDS FOR ECONOMIC LIBERATION WHILE GLASNOST STANDS FOR POLITICAL REFORMS. PERESTROIKA AND GLASNOST ARE RUSSIAN WORDS

THE POLICIES OF PERESTROIKA AND GLASNOST WERE INTRODUCED BY MIKHAIL GORBACHEV WHO BECAME THE PREMIER OF SOVIET UNION IN 1985

UNDER PERESTROIKA, GORBACHEV ALLOWED THE FORCES OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY TO DETERMINE THE PRICES OF COMMODITIES IN THE MARKET. THE ECONOMY WAS STILL UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PARTY OFFICIALS. PERESTROIKA EASED OUT GRADUALLY STATE CONTROL OF THE ECONOMY OF SOVIET UNION

UNDER GLASNOST, GORBACHEV INTRODUCED POLITICAL REFORMS THAT ENSURED THE INTRODUCTION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION AND SOME OTHER FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY NOT ALLOWED IN SOVIET UNION AND MOST COMMUNIST COUNTRIES

PERESTROIKA AND GLASNOST POLICIES FACILITATED THE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION IN 1991

Question 20

EFFECTS OR AFTERMATH OF THE DISSOLUTION OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 20

1. EMERGENCE OF NEW COUNTRIES: ON DECEMBER 26, 1991, SOVIET UNION WAS DISSOLVED. THE DISSOLUTION LED TO THE CREATION OF 15 INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES SUCH AS ESTONIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE ETC

Question 21

EFFECTS OR AFTERMATH OF THE DISSOLUTION OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 21

2. RUSSIA BECAME THE SUCCESSOR STATE TO THE FORMER USSR: ALL THE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION WERE TRANSFERRED TO RUSSIA. ADDITIONALLY, ALL THE NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS OF SOVIET UNION WERE GIVEN TO RUSSIA. MOSCOW WHICH WAS THE CAPITAL OF USSR WAS RETAINED AS THE CAPITAL OF RUSSIA AFTER THE 1991 DISSOLUTION.

Question 22

EFFECTS OR AFTERMATH OF THE DISSOLUTION OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 22

3. ALL THE EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES THAT WERE UNDER THE COMMUNIST BLOC SWITCHED OVER TO LIBERAL (WESTERN) DEMOCRACY

Question 23

EFFECTS OR AFTERMATH OF THE DISSOLUTION OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 23

4. FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES ABANDONED SOCIALIST ECONOMIC MODEL AND EMBRACED/ADOPTED CAPITALIST ECONOMIC MODEL

Question 24

EFFECTS OR AFTERMATH OF THE DISSOLUTION OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 24

5. COLLAPSE OF THE BI-POLAR SYSTEM: THE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION GAVE AMERICA THE OPPORTUNITY IN BECOMING THE NUMERO UNO (NUMBER 1) IN WORLD AFFAIRS. AMERICA IS CONSIDERED THE SOLE SUPERPOWER SINCE 1991

Question 25

EFFECTS OR AFTERMATH OF THE DISSOLUTION OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 25

6. EAST AND WEST GERMANY RE-UNITED TO BECOME GERMANY IN 1990 AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE BERLIN WALL IN 1989. GERMANY REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST PROPEROUS AND MOST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD TODAY

Question 26

EFFECTS OR AFTERMATH OF THE DISSOLUTION OF SOVIET UNION

Answer 26

7. WITH THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF CHINA, THE EMERGENCE OF GAS RICH RUSSIA, THE EXPANSION AND PROSPERITY OF EU AND THE ROLE OF NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES, THE WORLD IS TENDING TOWARDS A MULTI-POLAR SYSTEM