Capitals
Capital of Romania
Bucharest
Capital of Latvia
Riga
Capital of Albania
Tirana
An ideology that advocates social and economic equality between classes, and centralized, stateheld means of production and distribution of all goods and services
Communism
Ended the centuries-long autocratic rule of the Russian tsars and established a Communist goverment in its place
Vladimir Lenin
Capital of Estonia
Tallinn
Capital of Moldova
Chisinau
Capital of Belarus
Minsk
A coniferous evergreen region in northern latitudes; also called the boreal forest
Taiga
The place where the worst nuclear reactor disaster in history occured
Chernobyl
Capital of Slovakia
Bratislava
Capital of Bulgaria
Sofia
Capital of Croatia
Zagreb
A time of political and military tension between the Soviet Union and the United States
Cold War
Known as the Soviet Union, began in 1922 after the Bolshevik Revolution, incorporated Russia and 14 other Soviet States. After WW2 Russia forced countries along its eastern border to establish a communist goverment
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Capital of Ukraine
Kiev
Capital of Montenegro
Podgorico
Capital of Russia
Moscow
A fundamental shift from the old, tsarist system
Bolshevik Revolution
Took power after the death of Lenin in 1924, reconstructed the economy, placing all means of production and distribution of goods and services solely in the hands of the state
Joseph Stalin
Capital of Poland
Warsaw
Capital of Kosovo
Pristina
Capital of Serbia
Belgrade
A line of buffer states between the countries of Western Europe and the Communist Bloc
Iron Curtain
Is the longest river in Europe ( in Russia)
Volga River