Vocab
This is an economic system where the government or the whole community owns everything. Everyone is supposed to share the wealth that they create.
Communism
This is the current leader of Russia
Vladimir Putin
This is the event that led to the rise of the Soviet Union in the early 1920s.
Russian Revolution/Bolshevik Revolution
What is the capital of Russia?
Moscow
This is another name for the position of leader of Russia.
Kremlin
This is a group of countries that believe in Western ideals such as freedom and security. Russia feels threatened by this organization.
NATO
This was the first leader in charge of the Soviet Union following the Russian Revolution.
Vladimir Lenin
These were two countries that emerged as world superpowers following the end of World War II.
USA and USSR
What is the closest US State to Russia?
Alaska
This is the name of a competition to have the first satellite orbit the Earth as well as put the first human on the moon.
Space Race
This is the name of the current government in Russia.
Russian Federation
This was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Joseph Stalin
This was a nearly 50 year ideological war between capitalism/democracy and communism.
The Cold War
Name one European country that borders Russia.
Check Map
This was the year that Russia invaded and annexed Crimea
2014
This describes a war in which there is no actual violent fighting or killing.
cold war
This was the leader of Russia during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev
This was a competition between the United States and the USSR during the Cold War to see who could develop the best and biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons.
The Arms Race
This sea is important to Russia and a major reason they annexed Crimea.
The Black Sea
This country is supplied weapons from Russia. Russia is criticized extensively for doing so.
Iran
These are powerful business owners and politicians of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the fall of the Soviet Union.
Russian Oligarchs
What is the Russian “royal” name for the person in charge of the royal family that was overthrown during the Russian Revolution?
The Czar (Nicholas II)
This event led to several Soviet satellite states gaining their independence and the formal end to the Cold War.
The Fall of the Soviet Union
This is the name of the continent that Russia is a part of…
Eurasia
Russia has threatened to take this action if Ukraine joins NATO.
Use nuclear weapons.