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.
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.
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Revolution
Policies
Krushchev
Stalin
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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:
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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 1921.
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
1956.
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 1960.
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