Collapse Of The Soviet Union/Eastern Bloc

Question 1

Impact of OPEC policies

Answer 1

Price of oil dropped in 1980s

Question 2

Soviet budget deficit by1988

Answer 2

Approx 13% of Soviet GNP

Question 3

US budget deficit by 1988

Answer 3

3.5% of US GNP

Question 4

“No one would dare to claim in 1980 what Khrushchev had claimed in 1960: that within a decade the Soviet Union would match and even overtake the United States”

Answer 4

Historian - Richard Crockatt

Question 5

Approx % of Soviet GNP spent on military supplies 1964-82

Answer 5

25%

Question 6

Poor harvest grain in USSR

Answer 6

1975

Question 7

Crop failures and shortages in USSR

Answer 7

1972

Question 8

Chernobyl disaster and release of dissident Andrei Sakharov

Answer 8

1986

Question 9

Gorbachev announced glasnost

Answer 9

1988

Question 10

Cost of Afghanistan for USSR

Answer 10

$8 billion per annum
15,000 Red Army deaths

Question 11

Amount spent per annum on support efforts in Cuba, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Eastern Europe

Answer 11

$40 billion
40% of budget

Question 12

Cost of policies tackling alcoholism in USSR

Answer 12

Almost 100 billion rubles in taxes lost

Question 13

Fall in industrial production in USSR by 1987

Answer 13

Fallen by 6%

Question 14

Government deficit in USSR by 1987

Answer 14

Up to 57 billion rubles

Question 15

Inflation by 1989 in USSR

Answer 15

10%

Question 16

Government commission established to recommend a way forward

Answer 16

1989

Question 17

Yavlinsky Report, which was rejected

Answer 17

1990

Question 18

Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

Answer 18

Announced in February 1988
By May 1989 last Soviet troops were withdrawn

Question 19

Gorbachev announced USSR’s intention to reduce support for MPLA regime (Angola)

Answer 19

December 1986

Question 20

Negotiations reached in New York for Angola

Answer 20

December 1988

Question 21

The Malta Summit

Answer 21

December 1989

Question 22

The Moscow Summit - START 1 and Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

Answer 22

July 1991

Question 23

The Malta Summit
Achievements

Answer 23

Paved the way for Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) 1990
Signed in Paris in November 1990

Question 24

Kohl (West German chancellor) and Gorbachev met

Answer 24

1990
Gorbachev accepted what was almost inevitable - agreed to remove Soviet military presence from East Germany and put no restrictions on German sovereignty

Question 25

The Geneva Summit

Answer 25

November 1985

Question 26

The Reykjavik Summit

Answer 26

October 1986

Question 27

The Washington Summit - Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces INF Treaty

Answer 27

December 1987

Question 28

The Moscow Summit

Answer 28

June 1988

Question 29

The Baltic States held a Baltic Assembly in Tallin, Estonia

Answer 29

May 1989