Test Bite

1. What country did Russia invade in 1979?

Poland
Afghanistan
Vietnam

2. Who called the Soviet Union the "evil empire"?

Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Pope John Paul II

3. What won the arms race for the USA?

cruise missiles
the neutron bomb
the "Star Wars" defence system

4. Why did it win the arms race?

Gorbachev realised that war would kill everybody.
Gorbachev wanted to introduce capitalism into the USSR.
Gorbachev realised the USSR could not afford the arms race.

5. What do the letters START stand for?

Single Treaty Agreement for Reducing Tension
Soviet Tactical Alliance (Revocation) Treaty
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

6. What is the literal meaning of perestroika?

relaxation
restructuring
revolution

7. What is the literal meaning of glasnost?

freedom
human rights
democracy

8. What was the name of the trade union that won the free elections in Poland in 1989?

Sociality
Solidarity
Solubility

9. What problem rocked the USSR in 1986?

Moscow Olympics
Chernobyl
Lech Walesa became prime minister of Poland

10. When did the Berlin Wall come down?

November 1989
June 1989
July 1989

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