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6. What did Malenkov believe?

  • That money needed to be spent on the military rather than living standards in Russian
  • That war between capitalism and communism was not inevitable, living standards could be improved
  • That Germany needed to be reunified
  • That war between capitalism and communism was inevitable

7. What did Khrushchev think of Malenkov's "new course" policy?

  • He did not care
  • He criticised it
  • He advocated it
  • I do not care

8. What does Khrushchev do to Beria?

  • Exiles him
  • Imprisons him
  • Has a secret trial and executes him
  • Forces him into retirement

9. What happened in the 1963 harvest?

  • It was disastrous and soil fertility decreased
  • It was extremely successful
  • It failed due to hot weather

10. Who was Beria?

  • A diplomat for US and USSR relations
  • A diplomat for German and USSR relations
  • Head of the secret police and the politburo
  • Khrushchev's closest advisor

11. When was the first ballistic missile introduced by Russia?

  • 1957
  • 1959
  • 1956
  • 1958

12. What role did Beria have in Foreign Policy?

  • A proposal to split Germany into sections
  • A proposal to oust Khrushchev as leader
  • A proposal for the reunification of Germany
  • A proposal for an alliance between Russia and America

13. What happened in the Novocherkask uprising in 1962?

  • The uprising was not crushed, thus the catalyst to Khrushchev's downfall
  • Hungarians were killed as they opposed capitalism
  • 28 were killed and make as an example of mass disorder
  • 100s were killed in a bloodbath

14. What housing reforms took place?

  • 63 million were moved into new apartments
  • 65 million were moved into new apartments
  • 55 million were moved into new apartments
  • 60 million were moved into new apartments

15. Why was Zhukov removed?

  • Unruly political behaviour
  • Assertive with army reform
  • Radical economic reform
  • Khrushchev became more popular

16. What was the anti-party group?

  • A presidium angered by the abolition of central ministries
  • A group opposed to Khrushchev being the leader
  • A group in favour of the reunification of Germany

17. Which event showed fragility in Russia's role as a "superpower"?

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall
  • The Hungarian Uprisings 1950
  • The Hungarian Uprisings 1956
  • The second world war

18. What did Khrushchev's social reforms focus on?

  • Housing and consumer goods
  • The workers
  • Industry and large factories
  • The peasants