Former Soviet Union Test Review

These people ruled Russia during the days of the Russian Empire and were usually called by this title:

• Tsar

• Premier

• President

• Kaiser

The type of economy where all businesses are privately owned is:

• Market

• Command

• Mixed

• Traditional

The type of economy where all businesses are run by the government is:

• Market

• Command

• Mixed

• Traditional

The type of economy where the government makes some rules but many businesses are owned privately is:

• Market

• Command

• Mixed

• Traditional

The type of economy where nearly everyone is doing SUBSISTENCE level farming (where you are basically just growing enough to feed yourself) is:

• Market

• Command

• Mixed

• Traditional

The main advantage of having a market economy is:

• Competition lowers prices and improves products

• The government sets fair prices

• Monopolies never happen

• Everyone gets to live on a farm

Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person to truly leave the Earth's atmosphere was a part of this competition:

• Space Race

• Market Economy

• Olympics

• World Cup

The Cold War was called "cold" because

• The two sides never fought directly

• It was fought mostly in frozen Siberia

• Every one of the famous battles occurred in wintertime

• COLD stood for "Crimean Orange Larger Demand"

The "Breadbasket" refers to these Eastern European countries:

• Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia

• Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus

• Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan

• Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan

The term used to describe the divide between the Capitalist and Communist parts of Europe is:

• the Iron Curtain

• the Great Divide

• the Gulag

• the DMZ