People, places, and events
This Absolute Monarch Czar modernized and westernized Russia.
Who was Peter the Great?
The Arab Spring began in this country
What is Tunisia?
Government with a religious ruler
What is a theocracy?
A theory by Karl Marx in which Capitalism would change to Socialism and then to ______
What is Communism?
A narrow channel that connects two bodies of water
What is a chokepoint/strait?
Which group of people in the Middle East are now considered stateless?
Who are the Palestinians?
This 1500-mile mountain range separates East Asia Russia from Wet European Russia
What are the Ural Mountains?
What religions originated in SW Asia?
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism?
The type of Economic system in the former USSR.
What is Command Economy?
The Arab Spring helped many Countries bring change to SW Asia, but this group has seen very little political change in the region.
Who are women?
This stateless nation people call Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran home
Who are the Kurds?
Name physical feature in Eastern Europe and Russia that provides the majority of the food production.
What is the Northern European Plains?
What is the majority of religion practiced in Russia today?
What is Eastern Orthodox?
This organization has control over most of the world's oil production.
What is O.P.E.C.?
A nuclear power plant that exploded in Ukraine in 1986 and leaked radiation
What is Chernobyl?
This terrorist group wanted to create a Muslim Empire (caliphate)
Who are ISIS?
An important resource lacking in North Africa and SW Asia
What is water?
Countries that were part of the USSR buffer zone, as well as under the influence/ pressure of the USSR and its leadership.
What are Satellite Nations?
A type of non democratic government that controls everything in a country
What is a Totalitarian Dictatorship?
Imaginary boundary that separated Eastern Europe from Western Europe (Communism from Democracy)
What is the Iron Curtain?
Armenia is the only country in SW Asia with this dominant religion
What is Christianity?
This lake in Russia is the deepest, oldest, and contains 1/5th of all the freshwater in the world?
What is Lake Baikal?
Shiites and Sunnis are part of this religion?
What is Islam?
Although Shiite's and Sunnis agree on most everything, one thing they disagree on is this______
Who is the religious leader?
A major religion that is throughout Russia.
Orthodox Christianity