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

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Year	What Happened	Answer	% Correct
1986	This nuclear power station explodes, showering large areas in Ukraine, Belarus and beyond with radioactive material.	Chernobyl	91%
1977	This person's name is removed from the Soviet National Anthem.	Joseph Stalin	88%
1984	The first playable version of this tile-matching puzzle video game is released.	Tetris	82%
1961	This cosmonaut makes the first manned orbital flight.	Yuri Gagarin	82%
1967	The Soviet Union severed diplomatic relations with this country in the Arab-Israeli conflict	Israel	79%
1959	This country falls out with the Soviet Union over Moscow's policy of peaceful coexistence with the West.	China	76%
1988	The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of this state in the Arab-Israeli Conflict.	Palestine	76%
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	73%
1962	This crisis erupts over presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.	Cuban Missile Crisis	73%
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	70%
1964	Khrushchev is outsed and replaced as first secretary of the Communist Party by this man.	Leonid Breznev	67%
1981	Martial law is declared in this country due to the growing influence of US-funded trade union Solidarity.	Poland	64%
1973	Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on this medium, the first to do so.	Television	64%
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	61%
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	61%
1974	The Derg declared that socialism was the new ideology of this African state.	Ethiopia	58%
1983	This island was invaded by the American military in Operation 'Urgent Fury' because of Cuba's presence there.	Grenada	58%
1968	Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to stem a trend towards liberalisation, ending this period of political liberalisation.	Prague Spring	55%
1982	Brezhnev dies of a heart attack and is replaced by this KGB chief.	Yuri Andropov	55%
1955	This communist leader visits Moscow and agrees to accept Soviet aid.	Ho Chi Minh	45%
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	45%
1990	Elections in Czechoslovakia reduce the Communist Party to a minority, marking the success of this revolution.	Velvet Revolution	42%
1980	The United States announces its planned boycott of this sports event because of the USSR invasion of Afghanistan.	Moscow Olympics	36%
1956	This Krushchev speech comdemns the personality cult and aggressive behaviours of Stalin.	The Secret Speech	33%
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	24%
1979	This Soviet science fiction art film by Andrei Tarkovsky is released.	Stalker	24%
1971	The Soviets launch this space station, the first space station of any kind.	Salyut 1	15%
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	12%
1985	Gorbachev becomes general secretary and promulgates the policies of glasnost and perestroika. What did these mean?	Openness and Restructuring	12%
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	12%
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	9%
1965	These reforms sought to decentralise the USSR economy.	Kosygin Reform	9%
1957	This Stalinist group, partly comprised of Molotov, Kaganovich, and Malenko attempts and fails to deposte Krushchev.	Anti-Party Group	6%
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	6%
1958	Khrushchev becomes prime minister - in addition to Communist Party chief after dimissing this man.	Nikolai Bulganin	6%
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	6%
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	3%
1963	Khrushchev abandons this plan two years early, citing economic difficulties.	Seven Year Plan	3%