This term means mass murder of vast numbers of an
ethnic or cultural group.
What is genocide?
100
The Baltic sea is somewhat salty or this term.
What is brackish?
100
Most of the people of Eastern Europe and Western Russia are decedents of this people group.
Who are the Slavs?
100
Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky contributed to the Russian arts in this way.
What is as authors or with their novels or writing?
100
In the Czech Republic Christmas dinner is kept in this till it's time to cook and eat it on December 24th.
What is the bath tub?
200
A farm laborers who could be bought and sold along with the land.
What is a serf?
200
This is the longest river in Europe.
What is the Volga?
200
Following World War I this was the rivalry and conflict between the United States and Russia.
What is the Cold War?
200
This is the dominant religion of Russia and Eastern Europe today.
What is Eastern Orthodox?
200
These are two of the countries that surround the Black Sea.
What are Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Russia, and Georgia?
300
This is a small group of people who control the government and use it to further their own goals.
What is oligarchs?
300
The physical geography of Eastern Europe and Western Russia is mostly this.
What is vast plains?
300
The assassination of Austria-Hungry's leader started this war.
What is World War I?
300
In the 1980's this Soviet leader implemented new policies of openness.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
300
The KGB had this many agents at it's largest number.
What is half a million?
400
This is an economic system built on the idea that all property should belong to the community or the state, not to private individuals.
What is Communism?
400
Western Russia is the part of Russia that is found in this continent.
What is Europe
400
Life and living conditions in this country did not improve after communism ended.
What is Russia?
400
This former KGB agent was elected for his third term as president of Russia in 2012.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
400
These are the three main religious groups of Bosnia.
What are Croatian Catholic, Serbian Orthodox, and Bosnian Muslim?
500
The term that means the rise in prices for goods and services.
What is inflation?
500
This part of Russia has glaciers and is ice covered year round.
What is Novaya Zemlya?
500
This title is Russian for Caesar or powerful ruler.
What is czar?
500
This people group is the last to speak a non-Slavic Indo-European language.
Who are the Albanians?
500
These are two reasons that there was a travel ban under the Soviet Union.
What is the Soviet Union feared people wouldn't return, would make unfavorable comparisons between capitalism and communism, travelers might return home with radical ideas, people would see the prosperity abroad and criticize the Soviet government?