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These serve as a natural barrier between European Russia and Asiatic Russia.
What is The Ural Mountains
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These mountains are a major land form in Romania and Slovakia.
What are the Carpathian Mountains
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In what years did the Soviet Union exist?
What is 1917-1991
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Which two groups were persecuted by the Serbs?
What is Croats and Muslims
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What started WWI?
What is The assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand.
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The easternmost peninsula in Europe and is home to several ethnic groups.
What is Balkan.
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This group of people migrated into Eastern Europe from Asia and settled the land many centuries ago..
What are The Slavs
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Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev
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What was the significance of the Danube River in relation to the Roman Empire?
What is The river was an ancient boundary of the Roman Imperial Frontier.
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Near what city did a nuclear reactor explode in 1986?
What is Chernobyl, Ukraine.
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Lack of belief in deity or organized religion.
What is Atheism.
300
This major waterway serves as a commercial highway through the heart of Russia...
What is Volga River
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What kind of economy did the Soviet Union have?
What is a command economy!
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What country broke up in 1995 and led to nationalist uprisings and armed conflict in the Balkans?
What is Yugoslavia
300
What is the Russian Revolution known as in Russia?
What is Red October
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Political standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States following World War Ii and lasting until the late 1980's.
What is The Cold War
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A nuclear reaction at this facility caused a major fire and release of dangerous radiation into the atmosphere.
What is Chernobyl
400
What is a buffer zone?
What is A region that separates two feuding powers.
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What area acted as a buffer zone between the U.S and Europe and the East ( Soviet Union)?
What is Eastern Europe
400
What name did Russia adopt after the Russian Revolution? (the full name)
What is Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Plan of economic restructuring led to more of a market economy in the later days of the Soviet Union
What is Perestroika
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The opening of Soviet Society to the arts and political ideas was one reason relations improved between the East and the West in the late 1980's.
What is Glasnost
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What impact did WWII have on the Soviet Union?
What is the Soviet Union lost more people because of the war than any other country.
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What are the differences between European and Siberian Russia?
What is European Side: Larger Population, better soil, more waterways, and better climate. Siberian side: Desolate and Cold.
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What ongoing event is currently occurring between Russia and the Ukraine?
What is A political and territorial dispute over Crimean Peninsula.