The End of Bipolarity



Q) What year did the Berlin Wall fall? 

Answer: 1989


Q) What was the name of the economic system in the Soviet Union? 

Answer: Communism


Q) What was the name of the military alliance led by the Soviet Union? 

Answer: The Warsaw Pact


Q) What was the name of the reform program initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev? 

Answer: Perestroika


Q) What was the name of the coup that attempted to overthrow Gorbachev in 1991? 

Answer: The August Coup


Q) What were the three major republics that declared the Soviet Union disbanded in 1991? 

Answer: Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus


Q) What was the name of the economic policy that was implemented in many post-Soviet countries in the 1990s?

Answer: Shock therapy


Q) What was the name of the Chechen rebel leader? 

Answer: Shamil Basayev


Q) What was the name of the province in Yugoslavia that declared independence and led to a civil war? 

Answer: Bosnia and Herzegovina


Q) What is the name of the strategic agreement between India and Russia? 

Answer: The Indo-Russian Strategic Agreement