Key Terms
Industrial Revolution
Imperial Russia
The European Union
The Soviet Union
100
A Russian emperor.
What is a tsar?
100
Great Britain
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
100
Peter the Great
Who was the first Russian leader to begin westernization?
100
European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
What was the European Union called before 1992?
100
Vladimir Ulyanov also called Lenin
Who created the Soviet Union?
200
Pride in one's country.
What does nationalism mean?
200
Goods began to be made by machines in factories.
How did the Industrial Revolution change the way goods were made?
200
A Russian Duma
What was a kind of congress with elected members called in Russia?
200
He wanted Europeans to work together.
Why did Robert Schuman create the ECSC?
200
Josef Stalin
Who became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1924?
300
The Industrial Revolution
What was the life-changing period in which goods began to be made by machines called?
300
Factory owners became wealthy; people moved from the country to the city; cities grew rapidly; diseases spread because of the crowded and unclean conditions.
How did the Industrial Revolution affect the lives of Europeans?
300
A union of states or republics
What is a federation?
300
The Euro
What is the currency for the European Union?
300
World War II
What war started in 1941 between Germany and the Soviet Union?
400
Communism
What is a political system in which the central government owns farms, factories, and offices called?
400
A cloth product
What is a textile?
400
He needed to meet the people's demand for reforms after Bloody Sunday.
Why did Tsar Nicholas II create the Duma?
400
Denmark, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
What nations did not adopt the Euro?
400
The Cold War
What event occurred from 1945-1991 and involved the United States and the Soviet Union?
500
Foreign Minister
A government official who is in charge of a nation's foreign affairs is a...
500
Colonies provided raw materials and markets to sell goods.
Why did European nations take over countries and turn them into colonies?
500
It sold state-owned businesses to individuals and tried to become more democratic.
How did the Russian Federation try to westernization its economy?
500
The European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission.
What are the main policy-making institutions of the EU?
500
All of the Soviet Union's republics became independent nations. Russia was now called the Russian Federation.
What happened after the breakup of the Soviet Union?
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