This man was tsar of Russia when the Russian Revolution took place. He and his family were later killed by the Revolutionaries.
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?
100
This is the name for the economic system in which all people are supposed to be equal and goods and services are owned and distributed by the government.
What is comunism?
100
The Berlin Wall fell in this year.
What is 1989?
100
This term refers to the tension and rivalry between the USA and USSR which lasted from 1945-1990.
What is Cold War?
200
These four countries divided up Germany at the end of World War II.
What are the USA, UK, France, and USSR?
200
The tsar tried to lead Russia to victory in this war. (He was not very successful!)
What is World War I?
200
These countries became the two major world superpowers after World War II. The tension and rivalry between them became known as the Cold War.
What are the USA and the USSR?
200
This man became leader of the USSR and started a series of changes which eventually led to the fall of communism.
Who is Gorbachev?
200
The competition between the USA and the USSR to see who could build the most atomic weapons was called this.
What is the arms race?
300
When they were unable to go over the wall, some people escaped by using these passageways.
What are tunnels?
300
This "holy man" was brought in to try to help cure the tsar's son and heir to the throne.
Who is Rasputin?
300
In a famous speech, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said this had fallen over Europe as divisions between East and West increased after World War II.
What is an Iron Curtain?
300
This man became president of Russia when Gorbachev retired.
Who is Yeltsin?
300
This is the Russian world for "king."
What is tsar?
400
This was the name given to the area filled with security measures designed to keep people from escaping.
What is the death strip?
400
This goateed man was one of the key leaders of the Russian Revolution. He had been kicked out of Russia many times for stirring up trouble.
Who is Lenin?
400
This man with a really bushy mustache became dictator of the USSR after Lenin died. He led the USSR during World War II.
Who is Stalin?
400
This was one of the only countries where protests and demonstrations led to violence and the assassination of a dictator and his wife.
What is Romania?
400
This term, meaning openness, allowed the people of the USSR greater freedom of speech and freedom of movement.
What is glasnost?
500
This was the nickname given to the major border station used to cross from West Berlin into East Berlin.
What is Checkpoint Charlie?
500
The tsar's son, Alexi, suffered from this disease in which the blood does not clot properly.
What is hemophilia?
500
This competition between the USA and the USSR to see who could put a man into orbit first was part of the Cold War.
What is the space race?
500
These are the only three major communist countries left in the world today.
What are China, Cuba, and North Korea?
500
This term, meaning "restructuring" or "change", was used for Gorbachev's policy of moving the USSR's economy towards supply-and-demand and away from central control.