Capitals/Countries
Russia
Moscow
Europe's highest peak
Mt. Elbrus
The first czar of Russia
Ivan the Terrible
What is the Russian word for "Emperor"?
What is the organization that was founded at the end of World War II to promote peace?
United Nations (UN)
Warsaw
Europe's longest river
Volga
The French emperor who tried to conquer Russia
Napoleon
What is the second largest country in Europe?
Ukraine
What union in Poland did Lech Walesa organize?
Solidarity
Ukraine
Kiev
World's deepest freshwater lake
Lake Baikal
The founder of Communism
Karl Marx
Which Viking tribe was Russia named after?
Rus
What are the Baltic States?
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuanua
Romania
Bucharest
One of the two straits controlled by Turkey that gives Russia access to the Black Sea
Bosporus
The Communist leader who said he would "bury" the United States
Khrushchev
What is a system of government that says there is no God and allows the people no freedom?
Communism
Propoganda
Hungary
Budapest
One of the two straits controlled by Turkey that gives Russia access to the Black Sea
Dardanelles
Yeltsin
What is the mountain range that divides European Russia from Asian Russia?
Urals
What does Gorbachev allow to maintain his power?
Perestroika and Glasnost
Czech Republic
Prague
Largest level region in the world
Western Siberian Plain
The leader of the first Communist state
Lenin
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Checkov were famous Russian _______?
Writers
Gypsies
Slovakia
Bratislava
What is a famous Russian food?
Black caviar
Last czar of Russia
Nicholas II
Bolshevicks
What is the name given to Stalin's reign of terror?
The Great Purge
Bulgaria
Sofia
The first true national leader of a united Russia
Ivan III
What is the extremely cold part of Russia that was once used as a "prison"
Siberia
What was the war Russia lost against England, France, Turkey and Sardinia?
Crimean War