Soviet History 1913 to 1989 Final Exam Review Professor Kessler Soviet Jeopardy

Directions: In this PowerPoint you will find everything you need to know about the upcoming final. This is a game of Soviet Jeopardy. You may choose any topic and point value you would like to start. Once you have made your selection simply click on the arrow at the bottom of the screen or use the arrows on your keyboard to ask yourself a question and click again for the answer. The game will automatically progress as you click your way through. There is no time limit however on answering the questions.

Stalin Leaders Revolution Policies Krushchev

QUESTION: Known as the father of the Soviet Union. ANSWER: Vladimir Illyich Lenin

QUESTION: Actually of Georgian decent, his birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Dzhugashvili. ANSWER: Joseph Stalin

QUESTION: He was the Soviet Premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis and was the first Soviet Leader to visit the United States. ANSWER: Nikita Krushchev

QUESTION: Known for reforms such as glasnost and perestroika he was the final leader of the Soviet Union. ANSWER: Mikhail Gorbachev

QUESTION: Though his term was shortened by illness, he is known for inviting American girl Samantha Smith to the Soviet Union ANSWER: Yuri Andropov

QUESTION: Bread strikes in Petrograd led to this. Resulted in Nicholas II abdicating the throne. ANSWER: Revolution of 1913

QUESTION: Was the leader of the Provisional government, with the rise of the Bolsheviks he was eventually exiled to the United States. ANSWER: Alexander Kerensky

QUESTION: A leader of the Bolsheviks and founder of the Red Army he fell from favor and went into exile. He was murdered by agents of Stalin in 1940 in Mexico. ANSWER: Leon Trotsky

QUESTION: This revolution brought the Bolsheviks to power, effectively unseating the provisional government and creating the world’s first communist regime. ANSWER: October Revolution of 1917

QUESTION: Workers and armed soldiers seize key buildings around Petrograd effectively giving the Bolsheviks control of the city and the government. ANSWER: Overthrow of the provisional government.

QUESTION: Process by which farms and farmers were grouped together for greater efficiency ANSWER: Collectivization

QUESTION: War Communism was replaced by this in ANSWER: NEP or the New Economic Policy

QUESTION: Instituted by Stalin they were plans for economic growth. ANSWER: 5 year-plans

QUESTION: Based on a system of state ownership, the Soviet economy was managed through this. ANSWER: Bureau of Central Planning

QUESTION: The literal meaning of this word is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system. It was started by Gorbachev. ANSWER: Perestroika

QUESTION: Stalin was denounced in this speech at the 20th Party Congress in February ANSWER: The Secret Speech

QUESTION: In 1957, Khrushchev authorized this to be held in Moscow that summer. He instructed Komsomol officials to "smother foreign guests in our embrace”. ANSWER: 6th World Festival of Youth and Students

QUESTION: Under Khrushchev, these special tribunals operated by security agencies were abolished. ANSWER: Troikas

QUESTION: Famous debate between Krushchev and Nixon in Moscow during the 1959 Worlds Fair. ANSWER: The Kitchen Debate

QUESTION: His U-2 American spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in May ANSWER: Francis Gary Powers

QUESTION: Program of rapid industrialization beginning in the 1920’s. ANSWER: 5-year Plans

QUESTION: Period of time in which enemies of the state were tried mostly in secret and either exiled to work camps in Siberia or summarily executed. ANSWER: The Great Terror

QUESTION: A social class targeted by Stalin as being the root of slow economic development with in the Soviet Union. ANSWER: Kulaks

QUESTION: A plot outlined by Stalin and Soviet officials in 1952 and 1953 whereby several doctors (over half of whom were Jewish) allegedly attempted to kill Soviet officials. ANSWER: The Doctors Plot

QUESTION: Stalin personally edited and rewrote by hand sections of this cold war book. ANSWER: Falsifiers of History