Fill in the blanks.
The Soviet political system was based on ____ideology.
Socialist
____was the military alliance started by the USSR.
Warsaw Pact
____party dominated the Soviet Union’s political system.
Communist
____initiated the reforms in the USSR in 1985.
Mikhail Gorbachev
The fall of the ____symbolised the end of the Cold War.
Berlin Wall
Explanation
These answers are directly supported by the textbook context. (a) Question 1 states 'Socialism was the dominant ideology' describing the Soviet economy. (b) The matching exercise lists 'Warsaw' as the military pact. (c) The joke about a 'Communist Party bureaucrat' indicates Communist Party domination. (d) The matching exercise shows 'Mikhail Gorbachev' introduced reforms. (e) The text explicitly states 'The Berlin Wall symbolised the division between the capitalist and the communist world' and its fall marked 'the beginning of the end of the communist bloc.'