People
Who was Ivan III?
First true national leader of Russia.
What is the deepest fresh water lake
Lake Baikal
What does Bolshevik mean?
One of the Majority.
What does Siberia mean?
"Sleeping Land"
Coldest ocean
Artic Ocean
Who was Nicholas II?
Last czar of Russia.
What is Eurasia?
The combined mass of Europe and Asia.
What is collectivism?
System where individuals must give all their property to the government.
Crimean War
War fought over Russia's attempts to invade Turkish territory in modern-day Romania.
who made Marxism? (Communism)
Karl Marx
President of Russia from 2000-2008, returned to the presidency in 2012. Is Russia's current president.
Largest inland body of water
Caspian Sea
What is Capitalism?
System that allows individuals to own their own businesses and make a living without government control.
What does Pamir Mountains mean?
"The Roof of the World"
Mountain range that separates Europe and Asia
Ural Mountains
Who was Vladimir the Saint?
A man who introduced Russians to a form of Christianity, called Eastern Orthodoxy.
West Siberian Plain
One of the world's largest plains.
What does Glasnost mean?
openness.
What does Uzbekistan mean?
Only continent with one country.
Australia
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
Soviet leader who created perestroika and glasnost, he was also the last leader of the Soviet Union.
Europe's longest river
Volga River
restructuring.
What does Kyrgyzstan mean?
"Switzerland of Central Asia"
Who supported the construction of the Berlin Wall which separated Communist East Berlin from free West Berlin?
Nikita Khrushchev