History of the Soviet Union: An Event a Year 1954 - 1991

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Year	What Happened	Answer
1954	A prisoner uprising takes place in a Soviet labour camp in this Kazakh village. inmates launched a rebellion and proceeded to seize the entire camp compound, holding it for weeks.	Kengir
1955	This communist leader visits Moscow and agrees to accept Soviet aid.	Ho Chi Minh
1956	This Krushchev speech comdemns the personality cult and aggressive behaviours of Stalin.	The Secret Speech
1957	This Stalinist group, partly comprised of Molotov, Kaganovich, and Malenko attempts and fails to deposte Krushchev.	Anti-Party Group
1958	Khrushchev becomes prime minister - in addition to Communist Party chief after dimissing this man.	Nikolai Bulganin
1959	This country falls out with the Soviet Union over Moscow's policy of peaceful coexistence with the West.	China
1960	Soviet Union shoots down this US spy plane over Soviet territory. The plane would later share its name with an Irish rock band.	U-2
1961	This cosmonaut makes the first manned orbital flight.	Yuri Gagarin
1962	This crisis erupts over presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.	Cuban Missile Crisis
1963	Khrushchev abandons this plan two years early, citing economic difficulties.	Seven Year Plan
1964	Khrushchev is outsed and replaced as first secretary of the Communist Party by this man.	Leonid Breznev
1965	These reforms sought to decentralise the USSR economy.	Kosygin Reform
1966	Soviet Union surprise the world by coming fourth in this international competition. It would bring Lev Yashin to international attention, today considered by many as the greatest goalkeeper in the history of football	Fifa World Cup
1967	The Soviet Union severed diplomatic relations with this country in the Arab-Israeli conflict	Israel
1968	Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to stem a trend towards liberalisation, ending this period of political liberalisation.	Prague Spring
1969	This disenfranchised Soviet Soldier attempted to assassinate Brezhnev on 22 January 1969 by firing shots at a motorcade carrying Brezhnev through Moscow	Viktor Ilyin
1970	This form of rule, which was caused by a reshuffle in the USSR in 1970, describes a situation where rulers are significantly older than most of the adult population.	Gerontocracy
1971	The Soviets launch this space station, the first space station of any kind.	Salyut 1
1972	Nixon and Brezhnev conclude this conference with the signing of a joint declaration of long-range plans to avoid a military confrontation and to eventually disarm.	Moscow Summit
1973	Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on this medium, the first to do so.	Television
1974	The Derg declared that socialism was the new ideology of this African state.	Ethiopia
1975	These accords, which sought to improve relations between the Communists and the West are signed by 35 states. The accords backfire, as Richard Nixon comments that the United States "had never wanted the conference"	Helsinki Accords
1976	This U.S. President stumbles mid-debate when he declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).	Gerald Ford
1977	This person's name is removed from the Soviet National Anthem.	Joseph Stalin
1978	This word describes a form of cultural assimilation process during which non-Russian communities, voluntarily or not, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian one. A major campaign of this began this year.	Russification
1979	This Soviet science fiction art film by Andrei Tarkovsky is released.	Stalker
1980	The United States announces its planned boycott of this sports event because of the USSR invasion of Afghanistan.	Moscow Olympics
1981	Martial law is declared in this country due to the growing influence of US-funded trade union Solidarity.	Poland
1982	Brezhnev dies of a heart attack and is replaced by this KGB chief.	Yuri Andropov
1983	This island was invaded by the American military in Operation 'Urgent Fury' because of Cuba's presence there.	Grenada
1984	The first playable version of this tile-matching puzzle video game is released.	Tetris
1985	Gorbachev becomes general secretary and promulgates the policies of glasnost and perestroika. What did these mean?	Openness and Restructuring
1986	This nuclear power station explodes, showering large areas in Ukraine, Belarus and beyond with radioactive material.	Chernobyl
1987	This Gorbachev reform, which called for internal democracy which would allow voters to vote for progressives within the party causes thousands of spoiled ballots. It was ultimately a failure, as few reformists won.	Demokratizatsiya
1988	The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of this state in the Arab-Israeli Conflict.	Palestine
1989	Two million people joined hands to form the Baltic Way across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to demonstrate for independence as part of this revolution.	Singing Revolution
1990	Elections in Czechoslovakia reduce the Communist Party to a minority, marking the success of this revolution.	Velvet Revolution
1991	Gorbachev resigns as Soviet president. The Supreme Soviet announces the dissolution of the USSR the next day. This man becomes the USSRs first elected leader shortly before this dissolution.	Boris Yeltsin

Level 37

Apr 27, 2019

Th U. S. invaded Grenada in 1983 to rescue students at the Medical School there after a bloody coup d'etat and the assassination of its Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop. Bishop, who had established a Socialist form of government on the island was, nonetheless, considered a moderate and amenable to discussions with the US and non socialist states. This was opposed by Bernard Coard (his erstwhile second) and his faction, who arrested and then assassinated Bishop. Due to the turmoil and Coard's actions, the U. S. invaded to evacuate students of the Medical School. That Soviet troops were on the island (constructing a new airport) was already known to the U.S. and was of secondary importance.

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Apr 28, 2019

Hi. Thanks for following my quizzes and contributing. Hope you find them enjoyable. I'll change the wording of the questions in due course.

Level 88

Nov 19, 2020

Interesting quiz, lots of new information for me. One quibble: Brezhnev should be the answer for the 1964 question but it is not accepted. You even spell it that way a few questions later. I tried several variations but always with the H, and so did not get credit. Thanks!

Level 42

Nov 21, 2020

Thanks for your kind feedback. My quizzes aren't very popular, so it's rare that I get help from fellow users. I have just edited that question for you.

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