LSA WA Russia

In 1939, Stalin shocked the world by signing a "non-aggression" treaty with this old enemy.

In what became known as the Great Purge, Stalin sent millions to prison camps called _______.

All of the following Soviet cities were soon under siege EXCEPT:

Russian forces recently helped this Middle Eastern nation's government win a bloody civil war.

Following the war all of the following Allies had zones of occupation in Germany EXCEPT:

This weak-willed Russian tsar faced increasing discontent from the Russian people by 1905.

Currently, the _____ is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race.

Although he died in 1924, this father of the communist revolution is frozen in time in Moscow.

Brezhnev and U.S. President Richard Nixon negotiated a "thaw" in the Cold War known as _______.

By 1916 the Russian army had lost more than __________ casualties and had very little success.

After the tsar abdicated in March 1917, he took control as head of the provisional government.

He lost a power struggle with Josef Stalin to become Lenin's successor.

The Russian army lost 30,000 dead in this August 1914 first great battle on the Eastern Front.

All of the following nations share a border with Russia EXCEPT:

In 2000, Yeltsin resigned, giving power to this former Soviet spy head and noted "tough guy."

The USSR successfully tested its first Atomic Bomb in ___, changing the nature of the Cold War.

Boasting of the superiority of communism over capitalism, Kruschev famously told the west:

Detente came to an abrupt end when the USSR invaded this neighboring nation in 1979.

That same year construction was begun here on this wall to keep East Germans from fleeing West.

From east to west, how many miles is it across Russia?

Stalin later sent a message to Russian exiles by having Trotsky assassinated in Mexico with a:

From top to bottom, the order of the color bars in the modern Russian flag is:

This Russian tsar is best remembered for his harsh policy of "Russification."

This mountain chain separates European Russia from Asian Russia.

By February 1943 the Soviets turned the tide of the war, capturing an entire German army here:

After 10 years of bloody stalemate, this new Soviet leader ended the Afghan War in 1989.

Russia was part of this pre-war alliance along with Britain and France. 

All of the following were among Nicholas & Alexandra's five children EXCEPT:

The Red Army lost roughly 11 million dead in WW2, or ____ soldiers killed for every 1 American.

Crown Prince Alexei's future was clouded by this life-threatening medical condition.

Ferdinand's assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a member of this violent Serbian independence group.

Hoping to stir a revolt, the Germans returned this communist exile from Switzerland to Russia.

By April 1945 the Red Army fought their way west to this city, where Hitler committed suicide.

After leading the fight against a communist coup in 1991, he was elected to replace Gorbachev.

Nicholas was strongly influenced by his wife, _____, who repeatedly urged him to resist reform.

After Stalin's death in 1953, leadership of the USSR next passed to _________.

Russia shares borders with more nations than any other country. How many nations border Russia?

After the Soviets closed off access to Berlin in 1948, the Western Allies responded by:

The tsar led from this palace, built in the baroque style of Versailles & today an art museum.

His 1914 assassination in faraway Serbia set Tsarist Russia on the fatal path to World War One.

All of the following Allied nations sent troops to aid the Whites in the Intervention EXCEPT:

Winter Palace guards opened fire on a crowd of unarmed protestors in this 1905 "massacre."

In 2014 Putin demonstrated new Russian power by annexing this region of neighboring Ukraine.

The Reds executed Nicholas II & his family in July 1918, but rumor had it one daughter escaped.

Russia's economy has rebounded thanks to its large reserves of all of the following EXCEPT:

In 1961 Kruschev's attempt to base nuclear missiles here almost led to war with the U.S. 

Nicholas had been badly embarrassed by Russia's shocking loss to this nation in a 1904-05 war.

In 1957 he backed up his boast when the USSR put this first satellite into Earth orbit. 

All of the following nations were allies of the Soviet Union during WW2 EXCEPT:

The quick collapse of communism that followed was best illustrated by the fall of this in 1990.

Russian peasants were among the last in Europe to be tied to the land in a system called _____.

The communists signed this extremely harsh peace treaty with Germany to end the war quickly.

Coming to the aid of its ally Austria, Germany declared war on Russia on __________.

At approximately 2,300 miles long, this Russian river is the longest in all of Europe.

The Winter Palace was located in the once-Russian capital city of _____________.

After Kruschev was forced from office, this new, less confrontational leader rose to power. 

Somewhere between 22-28 million civilians were also killed in what Russians still call the:

This Russian navy ship fired the first shot of the communists' October Revolution.

In the Russian Civil War that followed he led the communist Red Army against the Whites.

Two years later Adolf Hitler's Germany launched a massive invasion of the USSR code named: