Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Physical Geography
Russian Population
Miscellaneous
100
Power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II
What is Cold War
100
Society in which workers control industrial production
What is Communism
100
Which mountains divide Eastern European Russia and Asian Russia
What is Ural Mtns
100
Russia's current President is named
Vladimir Putin
100
During the Cold War, which European Country was divided between Communist (East) and Capitalist (West)?
Germany
200
A revolutionary group in Russia led by Vladimir Lenin, who overthrew Czar Nicholas II
What is Bolsheviks
200
A government program requiring everybody to speak Russian and become a Christian
What is Russification
200
Most of Russia's landscape lies in a ________________ climate
What is Subarctic
200
The first President of Russia, after the collapse of the Soviet Union was
Boris Yeltsin
200
Site of one of the worst nuclear power plant disasters in world history, which caused radiation to be leaked into the surrounding atmosphere.
What is Chernobyl
300
Economic system based on free enterprise, in which businesses are privately owned, and production and prices are determined by supply and demand.
What is Market Economy
300
Russian term for a dictator
What is Czar
300
How many time zones does Russia span?
What is 11
300
Russia's historical roots date back to which century?
What is 600s
300
America’s plan to give economic aid to European countries in danger of falling to communism was known as
What is Marshall Plan
400

The spreading development of Nuclear Arms

What is Nuclear Proliferation

400
Vast, subarctic forest that covers much of Russia and Siberia
What is Taiga
400
Which body of water does the Volga river connect Moscow to?
What is Caspian Sea
400
In the 1200s, who overthrew the Slavs?
What is Mongols
400
Coined by Winston Churchill, the ______________________ was the term for the separation between eastern and western Europe.
What is Iron Curtain
500
Rich, black topsoil found on the North European Plain
What is Chernozem
500
A country controlled by other countries notably by the Soviet Union after World War II
What is Satellites
500
The area that inhabits about 3/4 of Russia's population and holds rich, black soil is known as the
What is North European Plain
500
In what type of climate do most Russians live?
What is Mid-latitude (Humid Continental)
500
Give one educational subject emphasized by the Soviets during the Soviet era?
What is Science, Military, Engineering
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