People
Places
Ideas
Events
People #2
100
Meaning Caesar, this was the Russian title for their emperors.
What is Tsar.
100
This is the largest country in not only North Eurasia, but in the world.
What is Russia.
100
The ideology that holds that everyone should be given equal resources, and that industry and land should be the property of everyone.
What is communism (or socialism).
100
In 1986 this city experienced the worst nuclear disaster in history, releasing several hundred times more radiation than the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan.
What is Chernobyl, Ukraine.
100
He was the leader during the USSRs "golden times."
Who is Nikita Khrushchev.
200
He was the leader of the communist Bolsheviks.
Who is Vladimir Lenin.
200
These mountains are often considered the divider between Europe and Asia.
What is the Urals.
200
This was Lenin's promise and slogan for the communist revolution.
What is “Peace, Land and Bread.”
200
The name of this overthrow of the Tsar by the Bolsheviks is often confusing, considering it takes place in November.
What is the October Revolution.
200
This was the first president of non-communist Russia.
Who is Boris Yeltsin.
300
His horrific policies were intended to destroy all opposition, and ended up killing millions.
Who Joseph Stalin.
300
This cold, vast area covers most of eastern Russia.
What is Siberia.
300
George Kennan first called for this policy in his "Article X." It calls for the gentle isolation of the Soviet Union and the active stopping of the spread of communism.
What is the Containment Policy.
300
This incident was the closest the USSR and US ever came to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
300
This Russian politician (former president and current PM) is often portrayed negatively in the U.S. for his curbs on political freedoms.
Who is Vladimir Putin.
400
The final leader of the USSR.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev.
400
This black line represents this imaginary division between the USSR/Warsaw Pact and NATO.
What is the "Iron Curtain."
400
This was the belief that if either the USSR or US attacked each other that neither would survive.
What is M.A.D.
400
In 1989 this barrier fell, considered to symbolize for many the beginning of the Soviet Unions demise.
What is the Berlin Wall.
400
He was the last Tsar of Russia.
Who is Nicholas II.
500
His policies initiated a period of "stagnation," slowing down the Soviet economy due to corruption and a massive growth of the bureaucracy.
Who is Leonid Brezhnev.
500
This Moscow fortress is headquarters the Russian government.
What is the Kremlin.
500
This was Yeltsin's policy for abruptly switching Russia's command economy to a capitalist free-market one.
What is "shock therapy."
500
This is the name of the event where many people in the Soviet Union were killed or sent to gulags on the pretenses of little to no evidence that they were actually anti-communists.
What is the Great Purge.
500
This man led the "Red Scare," accusing many innocent Americans of being communist in an attempt to rid the country of both communists and his political enemies.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy.