Behind the Iron Curtain Quiz 1: multiple choice
3 of the 15 questions have four options to choose from; the others stay as normal questions, because no fair wrong answers could be found for them. Tap an option to see if you are right.
1. In which country were the AVH the security police?
2. In which year was the Berlin Wall built?
3. What name was given to the reform programme initiated by Gorbachev?
Perestroika
4. What name was given to the state of tension between the communist states and the west after World War II?
Cold War
5. What was East Germany's official name?
German Democratic Republic
6. What was St Petersburg called during communist rule?
Leningrad
7. What was the communist economic association called?
COMECON
8. What was the Czech Charter 77 protesting about in 1977?
Human rights
9. What was the name given to Gorbachev's foreign relations programme?
Glasnost
10. What was the official name of the Soviet Union?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
11. What was the period of liberalisation in Czechoslovakia in 1968 called?
Prague Spring
12. What were the KGB in the Soviet Union?
Committee for State Security
13. When was the Hungarian uprising?
14. Where in Gdansk was Solidarity founded?
Shipyards
15. Which communist country remained outside the military alliance of eastern bloc countries in 1955?
Yugoslavia
ANSWERS
1. B Hungary
2. D 1961
3. Perestroika
4. Cold War
5. German Democratic Republic
6. Leningrad
7. COMECON
8. Human rights
9. Glasnost
10. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
11. Prague Spring
12. Committee for State Security
13. D 1956
14. Shipyards
15. Yugoslavia