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Soviet History 1913 to 1989 Final Exam Review Professor Kessler

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

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Soviet History 1913 to 1989 Final Exam Review Professor Kessler

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

  2. 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.

  3. Leaders Revolution Policies Krushchev Stalin 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50

  4. Topic 1 – 10 Points • QUESTION: • Known as the father of the Soviet Union. • ANSWER: • Vladimir Illyich Lenin

  5. Topic 1 – 20 Points • QUESTION: • Actually of Georgian decent, his birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Dzhugashvili. • ANSWER: • Joseph Stalin

  6. Topic 1 – 30 Points • 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

  7. Topic 1 – 40 Points • QUESTION: • Known for reforms such as glasnost and perestroika he was the final leader of the Soviet Union. • ANSWER: • Mikhail Gorbachev

  8. Topic 1 – 50 Points • QUESTION: • Though his term was shortened by illness, he is known for inviting American girl Samantha Smith to the Soviet Union • ANSWER: • Yuri Andropov

  9. Topic 2 – 10 Points • QUESTION: • Bread strikes in Petrograd led to this. Resulted in Nicholas II abdicating the throne. • ANSWER: • Revolution of 1913

  10. Topic 2 – 20 Points • 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

  11. Topic 2 – 30 Points • 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

  12. Topic 2 – 40 Points • 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

  13. Topic 2 – 50 Points • 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.

  14. Topic 3 – 10 Points • QUESTION: • Process by which farms and farmers were grouped together for greater efficiency • ANSWER: • Collectivization

  15. Topic 3 – 20 Points • QUESTION: • War Communism was replaced by this in 1921. • ANSWER: • NEP or the New Economic Policy

  16. Topic 3 – 30 Points • QUESTION: • Instituted by Stalin they were plans for economic growth. • ANSWER: • 5 year-plans

  17. Topic 3 – 40 Points • QUESTION: • Based on a system of state ownership, the Soviet economy was managed through this. • ANSWER: • Bureau of Central Planning

  18. Topic 3 – 50 Points • 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

  19. Topic 4 – 10 Points • QUESTION: • Stalin was denounced in this speech at the 20th Party Congress in February 1956. • ANSWER: • The Secret Speech

  20. Topic 4 – 20 Points • 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

  21. Topic 4 – 30 Points • QUESTION: • Under Khrushchev, these special tribunals operated by security agencies were abolished. • ANSWER: • Troikas

  22. Topic 4 – 40 Points • QUESTION: • Famous debate between Krushchev and Nixon in Moscow during the 1959 Worlds Fair. • ANSWER: • The Kitchen Debate

  23. Topic 4 – 50 Points • QUESTION: • His U-2 American spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in May 1960. • ANSWER: • Francis Gary Powers

  24. Topic 5 – 10 Points • QUESTION: • Program of rapid industrialization beginning in the 1920’s. • ANSWER: • 5-year Plans

  25. Topic 5 – 20 Points • 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

  26. Topic 5 – 30 Points • QUESTION: • A social class targeted by Stalin as being the root of slow economic development with in the Soviet Union. • ANSWER: • Kulaks

  27. Topic 5 – 40 Points • 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

  28. Topic 5 – 50 Points • QUESTION: • Stalin personally edited and rewrote by hand sections of this cold war book. • ANSWER: • Falsifiers of History

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