Culture
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?
What is a physical map?
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?
Name of leader when the Soviet Union fell?
Who is Gorbachev?
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)?
Definition-
the introduction of a democratic system or democratic principles.
What is democratization?
The construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad is an example of-
What is modification?
The lesson learned after the Chernobyl Disaster
Use more modern technology, take more safety precautions.
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?