Soviet advances in the 1920s-40s - Testing

By what amount did literacy increase in the USSR?

70%

Life expectancy increased by what factor?

2x

What form of energy was available to almost all people in the Soviet Union?

Electricity

What area of study which includes art and music grew in the Soviet Union?

Culture

What quite advanced thing did the USSR introduce, a feature of Western welfare states about 20 years later?

Free healthcare

Two undesirable conditions virtually disappeared. One of which was a directly dangerous one to people, which one?

Homelessness

What was the other condition, which is also undesirable but not immediately dangerous?

Unemployment

What was the regular working day, and what did some others in the USSR have which was shorter?

8 hours regular, some people had 7 or even 6 hours

What was a regular retirement age?

50 or 55

What area of the USSR went from severely backwards to the second biggest in the world?

Industry

What happened to nationalities in the Soviet Union?

They all had autonomy

What kinds of attacks ended?

Anti-Semitic pogroms and pogroms against other minorities

What two groups of people, each comprising about half of the population both in the USSR and elsewhere, had equal rights?

Men and women

What was the USSR unique in the years leading up to WW2?

It was the only consistently anti-fascist nation

What economic crisis didn’t affect the USSR?

The Great Depression

What minorities had equal rights?

Racial minorities

What massive war did the Soviet Union win in 1945, despite losing millions of people to the invaders?

WW2