Starter quiz
- Match the keywords to the correct definitions.
- anti-socialist⇔actions which are considered hostile towards communist beliefs ✓
- sphere of influence⇔a region of the world in which one state is dominant ✓
- deterred⇔to make someone less likely to do something ✓
- arms race⇔the race between the USSR and the USA to achieve nuclear superiority ✓
- What policy did Leonid Brezhnev set out in his article written in Pravda in September 1968?
- 'The Brezhnev Doctrine' ✓
- Which of the following did the doctrine written by Brezhnev do?
- Helped to reinforce the idea of a Soviet sphere of influence in Western Europe.
- Helped the USSR to justify the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. ✓
- Helped to reinforce the idea of a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. ✓
- Deterred any attempts at reform that threatened to weaken communism. ✓
- Helped the USSR to justify the invasion of Hungary in 1968.
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- Which country in Asia had been communist since Mao Zedong took power in 1949?
- 'China' ✓
- Who refused to send troops to take part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia and increasingly took an independent line from the USSR?
- Mao Zedong
- President Ceaușescu ✓
- Enver Hoxha
- Walter Ulbricht
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- Which countries welcomed the doctrine written by Brezhnev?
- Poland ✓
- East Germany ✓
- Romania
- Albania
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Exit quiz
- Write the missing word: A ______ is a person who publicly disagrees with and criticises their government.
- 'dissident' ✓
- Which of the following weapons was first developed during the 1960s?
- Anti-ballistic missile ✓
- Hydrogen bomb
- Inter-continental ballistic missile
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- During the 1960s, the USA was at war in which country?
- Cuba
- China
- USSR
- Vietnam ✓
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- Which Soviet leader increased social and political restrictions in the USSR after 1964?
- Stalin
- Khrushchev
- Brezhnev ✓
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- What does the example of Andrei Sinyavsky best demonstrate?
- There were strong restrictions on freedom of assembly in the USSR.
- There were strong restrictions on freedom of religion in the USSR.
- There were strong restrictions on freedom of speech in the USSR. ✓
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order
- 1⇔Stalin died.
- 2⇔Khrushchev reduced restrictions.
- 3⇔Brezhnev gained power.
- 4⇔Sinyavsky was sent to a gulag.
- 5⇔Committee on Human Rights in the USSR was founded.
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Key learning points
- The arms race continued in the 1960s.
- The Vietnam War created tensions between the USA and USSR.
- The USA was critical of the Soviet's record on human rights.
- Many rights were heavily restricted in the USSR, or not respected at all.
Common misconception
From the 1950s onwards, the USSR's human rights record continually improve.
Under Khrushchev, more respect was shown for political and social freedoms but these restrictions were tightened again once Brezhnev took power in 1964.
Keywords
Censorship - to examine books, documents, or films and remove parts of them that are not considered acceptable
Dissident - a person who publicly disagrees with and criticises their government
Gulag - severe prisons used in the Soviet Union where prisoners had to perform forced labour
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