Geography
longest river in Europe and Russia’s most important waterway
What is the Volga River?
The __________marked the end of the Russian czars.
Who are the Romanovs?
political capital of Russia
What is Moscow?
The rivalry and conflict between the USSR and the United States following World War II was called the _________.
What is the Cold War?
Russian farm laborer who could be bought and sold in czarist times
What is a serf?
The southern coast of Ukraine is bordered by the _________.
What is the Black Sea?
the effects of the fall of communism on Yugoslavia
What is disintegrated into several smaller countries based on ethnic groups?
Most of Russia’s vast coal, oil, and natural gas reserves are in _________.
What is Siberia?
The dominant religion in Russia and most Eastern European countries is the ________________.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
vast, level area of grassy land
What is a steppe?
part of Russia is covered with ice year-round
What is the Novaya Zemlya?
___________speak a non-Slavic language.
Who are the Albanians?
summers in Albania and Macedonia
What are hot and dry?
direct effect of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and Russia
What is stronger growth in national traditions and identity?
ruler of Russia before 1917
What is a czar?
The northern Ural Mountains are covered with _______.
What are forests and glaciers?
Early Slavs migrated from _________ and settled in the area that now includes Ukraine and Poland.
What is Asia?
empire formed in the a.d. 800s covered much of central Europe?
What is Great Moravia?
The transfer of industry to___________ in Russia did not improve the living conditions for most Russians.
What is private ownership?
area of high elevation
What is an upland?
effect of physical geography of the Balkan Peninsula migration and population patterns
What is difficult for people to travel easily throughout the region; human settlements are isolated from one another; cultural and ethnic diversity?
Russian czar who drove the Mongols out of Russia
Who is Ivan the IV?
Russia still has boundary disputes with former Soviet republics like ______________.
What are Estonia and Ukraine?
how most Eastern European countries became satellites of the Soviet Union after the end of World War II
What is by the end of World War II: the Soviet Union was in control of the region; promised free elections in Eastern European countries; installed (and dominated) communist governments; countries of Eastern Europe thus became Soviet satellites?
area of land that slopes gently downward from the surrounding land
What is a basin?