The End of Bipolarity Test - 1

Central Asia is endowed with water and an abundance of rich and varied energy resources—hydropower, oil, gas, and coal. These resources can support increased agricultural production and have the potential to exceed domestic energy demand to supply export markets.

Eleven of the twelve members of the Commonwealth of Independent States signed a declaration on December 21, 1991, agreeing that "Member states of the Commonwealth support Russia in taking over the USSR membership in the UN, including permanent membership in the Security Council."

On November 6 and 7, 1917 (or October 24 and 25 on the Julian calendar, which is why the event is often referred to as the October Revolution), leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government.

After Khrushchev's ousting in 1964, he was replaced by a troika comprising Leonid Brezhnev as First/General Secretary, Alexei Kosygin as Premier, and CC Secretary Nikolai Podgorny who went on to become Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1965.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Truman Doctrine, and the Berlin Blockade were the events associated with the Cold War period. Hence option (C) is correct.

The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 in Versailles.

The disintegration of the USSR did not result in Russia emerging as a new superpower. Instead, Russia experienced significant economic and political challenges following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and it did not maintain the same level of global influence and power as the USSR.

Changes in the GDR leadership and encouraging speeches by Gorbachev about nonintervention in Eastern Europe boded well for reunification, the world was taken by surprise when during the night of 9th November 1989 crowds of Germans began dismantling the Berlin Wall—a barrier that for almost 30 years had symbolized the Cold War division of Europe.

The withdrawal of government subsidies resulted in people being pushed into poverty.

On 25th December 1991 Soviet Union was officially disintegrated, heralding the end of the Cold War. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic came into being after the socialist revolution in Russia in 1917.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.