Key Terms
Tsars
Lenin and Stalin
Cold War
Hodgepodge
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a Russian Emperor
What is a tsar
100
Name three things that Catherine the Great accomplished during her reign.
What is she built schools, she built hospitals, she gave people religious freedom, she expanded the land of Russia
100
He developed more industries and forced the peasants to give up their farm products to feed the factory workers.
What is Stalin
100
who were the two world superpowers?
What is the U.S. and Soviet Union
100
Who freed the serfs?
What is Alexander II
200
a political system in which the central government owns farms, factories, and offices
What is communism
200
what was the goal of Ivan the Terrible? How did he achieve that goal?
What is to expand the land of Russia. He achieved it by conquering with cruelty.
200
He established communism and the Soviet Union.
What is Lenin
200
Winston Churchill said it was as if "this" had fallen and was dividing eastern and western Europe. What does this mean?
What is an iron curtain. This means that Eastern and Western Europe was completely divided.
200
What event took place at the Winter Palace, which sparked the Russian Revolution?
What is Bloody Sunday
300
the adoption of western European culture
What is westernization
300
After Ivan the Terrible, who became tsar? What is special about his reign?
What is Michael Romanov. He expanded Russia and his family ruled for more than 300 years.
300
He had revolutionary ideas.
What is Lenin
300
How did the Cold War affect the Soviet Union's economy?
What is there was not enough food or clothing being produced for the people and the government was losing it's control and breaking apart
300
During what years did the Cold War take place?
What is 1945-1991
400
define revolutionary
What is ideas that relate to or cause the overthrow of a government, or other great change
400
Name three ways in which Peter the Great improved Russia.
What is he built seaports to help with trade, he created westernization (bringing western European ideas to Russia), he hired foreign professors, scientists, advisors, artists, and architects, he established new schools and reorganized the government and army, he moved the capital city to St. Petersburg.
400
He sent peasants to prison camps in Siberia.
What is Stalin
400
In what year did the Soviet Union collapse? What happened to the republics that were a part of it?
What is in 1991, then the republics became independent nations.
400
What was one result of the Russian Revolution?
What is Nicholas II was forced to give up his throne and it also cause Russia to enter WWI.
500
What does descendant mean
What is a person descended from an ancestor; within the same family
500
Who was the last tsar of Russia? What happened that caused him to be the last?
What is Nicholas II. He was overthrown because of the DUMA and during the Russian Revolution was forced to give up his throne.
500
Explain one similarity and one difference between Lenin and Stalin.
What is Lenin and Stalin didn't care about the suffering of people. Lenin made promises that he didn't keep. Stalin succeeded on industrializing Russia.
500
How has the Russian Federation become less communist and more free market?
What is the state owned factories and businesses were sold to private individuals.
500
Why did many Russian people welcome communism?
What is they believed it would bring equality and the poor would have a better way of life.
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