Russia
Name 5 states that were part of the Soviet Union
Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia (Belarus), Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
Fission __________ atoms. Fusion _________ atoms.
splits and joins
Two other titles like Tzar
Emperor, Caesar
What province has the most oil in Canada?
Bonus: City?
Alberta
Fort McMurry
What happened on Bloody Sunday? Where?
Protesters were shot in St-Petersburg
What did Einstein say that WWIV would be fought with?
Sticks and stones
Explosive element in Hiroshima bomb
Uranium
Ivan the III died _________________ and seemingly____________________ .
Ivan died unmourned and seemingly unloved
Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
Where is the bay of pigs?
What happened there?
Cuba
An invasion that went bad.
What were the names of the two Nukes that were dropped on Japan?
Explosive element in the Nagasaki bomb
Plutonium
Three facts about Ivan the Terrible
Six (possibly eight) wives
cruel
Beat his pregnant daughter-in-law,Yelen Sheremeteva for wearing immodest clothing
Conquered lands
1570 epidemic, a plague killed 10,000 people
Died from a stroke while he was playing chess
Who was the Leader of the Bolsheviks?
Vladimir Lenin
What three world leaders were in charge during the Cuban missile crisis?
Kennedy, Castro, Kruschev
What two Japanese cities were bombed with nukes?
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Father of the nuclear bomb
Bonus (birth and death)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
1904- 1967
World's 4 largest wheat exporters
Russia, Usa, Canada, France
How does Rasputin die? (3)
Poisoned, shot, drowned
Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Dates of the nuke bombing of Japan
August 6 & 8, 1945
How many people died in the nuke bombs in Japan?
214,000
World's 4 top producers of oil?
USA, Saudi, Russia, Canada
Who was the father in the Romanov family?
Tzar Nicolas II
8 facts about Putin
Born Oct. 1952 (Leningrad – St-Petersburg)
Youngest of 3 (Older brothers dead – at birth, starvation)
His grandfather was a chef for Lenin & Stalin
Grandmother killed by Germans (1941)
Mother factory worker. Father in the Navy.
Learned German in high school
1975 Law at University
1975 Joins KGB
1985 – 1990 KGB in Germany 1997 Ph.D. (Economics)
Loves dogs
Is excellent at Judo
Loves the Beatles
Has at least 2 adult children
He is 5’ 6” / 152 pounds
Divorced
Net worth $70 billion