Geography
The combined landmass of Europe and Asia?
What is Eurasia?
The current President of Russia
Who is Vladimir Putin?
This proxy war occurred in Southeast Asia with the Soviets supporting the communists in the North, and the US supporting the South.
What is the Vietnam War?
This concrete barrier physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, as well as encircling and separating West Berlin to prevent people from leaving the communist East German territory
What is the Berlin Wall?
The majority religion in Central Asia.
The largest country in Eurasia
What is Russia?
This leader of the USSR maintained power by eliminating political opponents, controlling the arts, and creating an "us vs. them" mentality between the USSR and capitalist countries
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
What is the Space Race?
This proxy war occurred in East Asia with the Soviets supporting the communists in the North, and the US supporting the South.
What is the Korean War?
The name of the Ukrainian nuclear plant that had a meltdown in 1991?
What is Chernobyl?
This Ukrainian peninsula was annexed in 2014
What is Crimea?
The leader of the Bolsheviks
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This was caused by a rapidly failing post-World War II economy, a weakened military, and a series of forced social and political reforms like glasnost (political openness)
What is the Collapse of the Soviet Union?
Five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, this event marked the end of the physical and cultural divide between communist East Germany, capitalist West Germany, and their respective allies
What is the Fall of the Berlin Wall?
This Russian territory was taken from the Germans after WWII and is the home to the Russian Navy's Baltic fleet.
What is Kaliningrad?
This Landform is considered the boundary between Europe and Asia
What is the Ural Mountains?
The founder of the Anti-Corruption League, who survived two attacks and one poisoning, before he passed away while imprisoned in Russia
Who is Alexei Navalny?
After Soviets blocked access to West Germany, the Western powers airlifted food, medicine, fuel etc. to the people during this combination of events
What is the Berlin Blockade & Airlift?
A 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This country declared independence after a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
The cardinal direction (ie: South, Northwest) where most people in Eurasia live
What is West?
In the late 1980s, this leader of the USSR promoted political openness (glasnost)
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Invasion of Cuba in April 1961 by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government
What is the Bay of Pigs?
A proxy war in the Middle East where the Soviets sided with the communist government and the US supported the mujahedeen rebellion.
What is Afghanistan?
The name of the predominantly Islamic region of Russia that faced two wars in the 90s before the election of a pro-Russian leader in 2009
What is Chechnya?