Aral Sea, USSR, and Russia

Vocab

100

Define Authoritarian

favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.

200

Define the Bolshevik Red Army

Communist Party of Russia - Led by Vladimir Lenin

300

Define Human Environment Interaction

How people use and manage their local and worldwide ecosystems creating change that could be positive or negative

400

Define - What was the Industrial Revolution for the USSR?

The idea for Stalin and Lenin to create industrial factories to provide money for the economy while slowing moving away from food.

500

What is Totalitarianism?

When a leader is in control of all ways of life for the people

Aral Sea

100

What two countries are located near the Aral Sea

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

200

What are the two main reasons why the Aral Sea shrunk?

Salinization and Diverting the main Rivers

300

What are the health problems the people of the Aral Sea are facing?

Lung and Throat Cancer, various diseases such as kidney disease, and birth defects

400

How large was the Aral sea in the 1960s compared to other lakes? (number in the world?)

4th Largest

500

What is the name of the man made desert created by the Aral Sea?

Aralkum Desert

Rise of Communism

100

Who was the father of Communism in Russia / USSR?

Vladimir Lenin

200

Who created the view of communism for the world?

Karls Marx

300

Who was the leader of Russia before the revolution? What happened to him?

Czar Nicholas II, he was eventually captured and killed

400

What type of class system was used in communism?

Classless

500

The goal of communism is to allow all people to live in a __________ society?

Utopia or equal society

Lenin and Early Communism

100

Who was the Successor of Vladimir Lenin?

Joseph Stalin

200

Stalin created a Police State in the USSR which was called  the...

KGB or NKVD - Secret Police

300

In the 1930's Stalin killed the _________ of Russian Society.

The Brightest of Best - College Professors, Inelligentsia, Professionals, Best Staff in Government

400

There were 4 main policies of Stalin's police state.  Name 3 of the 4.

Violence, Terror, Spying, Executions.

500

Fill in the breaks - Millions of Men and Women were _______ or sent to Labor Camps for "_____ against the  Soviet Union"

Killed, Crimes

Late USSR

100

Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D Roosevelt all worked together during _____

World War II

200

The successor after Stalin's death was who?

Nikita Khrushchev 

300

What was Stalin's 5 Year plan for the soviet union? 

Hint - Industrial Revolution, Agricultural revolution, Women

Stalin wanted to focus on industry and get rid of agriculture.  The government wanted consumer goods to be limited while resources were the main output.  Women had fulltime jobs and ways to take care of children.

400

What was the Holodomor?

Stalin's food policy created a famine in Ukraine which resulted in the death of millions of people (5mill)

500

There are two other main man environmental disasters that occurred during the USSR / Russian Territory

What are they? 

Caspian Sea shrinking, Chernobyl