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Famous tourist city in west Russia
What is St. Petersburg?
Reactor 4 exploded at a nuclear power plant in this city in Ukraine.
What is Chernobyl?
These two continents form Eurasia.
What is Europe and Asia?
A capitalist economy can also be called this.
What is free enterprise?
A system of government in which they control production and own the nation's natural and capital resources.
This form of transportation has helped link eastern and western Russia.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
A 40 year period of tension between the USA and the Soviet Union regarding communism, weapons, and space.
What is the Cold War?
This physical feature is the deepest lake in the world.
What is Lake Baikal?
A ranking system of countries by development.
What is HDI?
The year that the Soviet Union fell apart.
What is 1991.
The name of the famous Russian folklore tale.
What is Baba Yaga?
A contest between nations to build bigger and more powerful weapons.
What is the Arms Race?
This physical feature is a natural barrier between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
These three things help determine what a country's HDI is.
What is literacy rate, life expectancy, and GDP per Capita?
Was controlled by communism until its fall in 1991.
What is the Soviet Union?
Contains landmarks found in cities all over Europe. A snapshot of what the continent of Europe looks like inside of Russia.
What is the Window to the West?
This was built to divide the capital of Germany. It was a symbol of Soviet’s cruel treatment and the Cold War itself.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This country is south of Russia.
What is Kazakhstan?
In this type of economy, the government controls production of the nations natural and capital resources.
What is a command economy (communism)?
What type of belief system did the Soviet Union promote?
What is atheism?
The St. Basil's Cathedral is located in this Russian city.
What is Moscow?
A policy that Gorbachev introduced that encouraged people to speak openly about the government.
What is Glastnost?
This sea dried up in 40 years due to excessive irrigation.
In this type of economy, people have the freedom to organize and operate their business for profit without interference of the government.
What is capitalism or free enterprise?
What is unlimited government?