the emperors of Russia took this title - you can spell it four ways (all correct)
What is czar?
100
the group that gained control of Russia in 1922 wanted to establish this type of government
What is communist?
100
this was the outcome for those who opposed communist policies in the Soviet Union
What is prison/execution?
100
this period describes the forty plus years of tension between the USA and the USSR - good thing it never heated up
What is the Cold War?
100
the Cold War in began almost immediately after this event
What is World War II?
200
before the Age of the Czars, this group controlled Russia and demanded that the princes of Russia pay tribute to them
What is the Huns (the Golden Horde)?
200
this is the reason that communism appealed to the peasant and working classes of Russia
What is it promised to divide the nations wealth equally among the people?
200
although they claimed to be "open" to western nations, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was correct in using this metaphor to describe the divide between the Soviet Union and the western world
What is the "Iron Curtain"?
200
this symbol of the divide between the Soviets and the free world was erected in a German city in the 1950s
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
Vladimir Lennon formed the Soviet Union in this year
What is 1922?
300
he was the last czar of Russia
Who is Czar Nicholas II?
300
this man led the communist revolution in Russia
Who is Vladimir Lennon?
300
the dividing line between free democratic Europe and communist Soviet Europe ran through this nation
What is Germany?
300
four nations of Europe that lost their independence and fell under Soviet Rule, the REGAINED their independence when the USSR collapsed
What are Germany (unified), Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary?
300
Russian and the United States have been cooperating to lessen the threat of this
What is terrorism?
400
this event in 1908 was the result of an uprising by the peasant and working classes - it helped lead to the downfall of the czars
What is Bloody Sunday?
400
the revolution to overthrow the czar in Russia began during this significant event
What is World War I? (Russia was fighting with the Allied Powers but withdrew from the war because of the revolution in its own nation)
400
this dictator ruler of the Soviet Union followed Vladimir Lennon and is believed to have executed as many as fifteen million of his own citizens who disagreed with communist policies
Who is Joseph Stalin?
400
four new independent nations of Europe that appeared after the collapse of the USSR
What are Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova?
400
the western world has condemned Russia in the last year for this action in Europe
What is taking over a portion of Ukraine and backing a civil war in the nation?
500
the last czar of Russia was removed from power in this exact year
What is 1917?
500
the Soviet Union was also called the USSR which is short for this
What is United Soviet Socialist Republic?
500
after World War II, the USA and the USSR were the world's two superpowers - the conflict between them was that they disagreed on these two issues
What is politics (democracy/communism) and economics (capitalism/communism)?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
You can risk up to 1000 points. The category is famous Russians.
500
for a 300 year period the czars of Russia all belonged to this family