Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, etc notes and Quiz 3 and Quiz 4 Study guides

World Regions and Cultures 11- Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin, etc.

Student Learning Objective- Students will be able to explain causes and effects of specific regimes in Russia and the surrounding region.

Film clips:

1956-Hungarian Uprising
1957- Sputnik
1959- Khrushchev visits the US
1961- Yuri Gagarin

1968- Prague Spring (Czech Uprising)

Stalin

1. Stalin was _____________ or Communist dictator from 1928 until 1953
2. Stalin died in 1953 and Nikita Khrushchev became Premier after sharing power for 3 years 
   
   
   
3. His personality included high ups and low downs

1. Debate with Nixon- He said "bye bye" to the _____________ 
2. Taking his shoe off at the ___ - slammed it on a podium and said "we will bury you" 
3. He was a high ranked General at the battle of _____________ 
4. He was respected by Stalin and fought bravely for Stalin
5. He shocked the USSR when he criticized Stalin after his death
6. _____________ released some of Stalin’s enemies, made censorship lighter and made it legal to criticize Stalin
7. It was still illegal to criticize Khrushchev
8. _____________ was still banned
9. Khrushchev’s 5 year _______ made consumer goods which was well received and still is
10. Massive purchase of grain from the US and others in 1963- US-Soviet grain deal was $100,000,000.  He did not allow _____________ like Stalin
11. ___________was a direct communication link between the White House and the Kremlin
12. _____________ test ban was signed
13. He ordered the building of the _____________ wall
14. Why? 3 million people had escaped from East Berlin to West Berlin
15. He caused the _____________ missile crisis by donating nuclear weapons to Fidel Castro
16. He was forced to resign in 1964
17. Leonid Brezhnev shared power from 1964 until 1970 and was Premier from 1970 until 1982 
    
    
    
18. _____________ was to relax Cold War tensions (pic 450 Our World)
19. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks or _____________ 
20. SALT II
21. Invasion of _____________ in 1978
22. KGB crushed underground literature
23. _____________ production was behind
24. _____________ production was behind
25. People were clearly unhappy with Communism
26. Brezhnev died in 1982

Quiz #3 is Tuesday, 12/1:

Armenia 

Azerbaijan 

Georgia 

Kazakhstan 

Kyrgyzstan 
Russia 

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan 

Mikhail Gorbachev became Premier in 1985

He withdrew USSR from ___________________

Glasnost or ___________________

 .    Freedom of speech, press and religion

Perestroika or ___________________

-Formed local governments, etc.

Allows ___________________ in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia

Berlin Wall is allowed to be torn down and Germany reunites as non-Communist

USSR splits into 15 separate Republics and none of them ___________________!

Election held and Boris Yeltsin takes 57% of the Popular Vote

Yeltsin was the son of an anti-Stalin prisoner

Member of the CPSU (1961-1990)

 Politburo Member

Mayor of Moscow under Perestroika

Ally of US

Drunk?

Impeached twice, resigned 1999

Vladimir Putin- president 2 terms, created the ____________ Minister position for himself when Dmitry Medvedev was President and is now President again!

Miscellaneous- Quiz #4 is Wednesday, 12/2:

Balkan Mountains 

Baltic Sea 

Budapest 

Caucasus Mountains

Kiev 

Moscow

Siberia

St. Petersburg (Leningrad/Petrograd) 
Tian Shan 

Volgograd (Stalingrad) 

Warsaw