Physical Geography
Largest plain in E. Europe
Russian Plain
Most common ethnic group in E. Europe
Slavs
The Allies in WW1 fought this group of nations
Central Powers
Current President of Russia
Putin
This is the belief that there is no god or higher power
Atheism
Russia's most important waterway and the longest river
Volga
This Russian leader expanded Russia's empire in the late 1700s
Catherine the Great
Russia's founding communist leader
Lenin
Name 3 of the capital cities of E. Europe
Moscow-Russia
Kiev-Ukraine
Minsk-Belarus
Budapest-Hungary
Warsaw-Poland
Prague-Czech Republic
The Soviet invasion of this nation in the 1980s quickly became known as "Russia's Vietnam."
Afganistan
This mountain range forms a portion of the boundary between Europe and Asia
Urals
Farm Laborers who were bought and sold with the land they work
Serfs
This Russian dictator is known for his brutality towards his own people
Stalin
The rise in prices for goods and services
Inflation
This group was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. Trained and supplied by the USA.
Taliban
Resources from this country->Coal, Oil, Copper, Bauxite, Fish
Romania
Controlled Russia for 250 years starting in the late 1200s
Mongols of Central Asia
The meaning of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The reason why a large percentage of people do not practice any religion
Communism governments strongly discouraged the practice of religion
KGB
Novaya Zemlya's Climate type
Polar
The assassination of this Archduke triggered World War 1
Francis Ferdinand
Tropical Island and once a nuclear threat to the USA
Cuba
Russian culture is a mix of these two influences
European and Asian
This is the meaning of the name Stalin
"Man of Steel"