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Because of the open plain, Russia was
invaded often
made lots of allies
built a wall
rarely invaded
2
the white army who opposed communism in 1917
Bolsheviks
Anti-Marxians
Anti- Perestroika
Anti Bolsheviks
3
system in which the govt. owns & operates all means of production for benefit of citizens; characterized by 1 party
anarchy
democracy
autocracy
communism
4
Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia are located by this landform
Baltic Sea
Ural Mountains
Transylvanian Alps
Caucusus Mountains
5
financial center of Russia under Mongol rule and current capital of Russia
Kiev
Moscow
ST Petersburg
Warsaw
6
Communist leader of the Soviet Union who began program of Perestroika & Glasnost in the 1980s
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Putin
Aleksandr Kerensky
Boris Yeltsin
7
Russian Lake that is drying up due to irrigation and chemical pollution
Caspian Sea
Lake Baikal
Aral Sea
Black Sea
8
Compared to the US population, Russia has a
a smaller population
about the same population
don't choose this answer
a larger population
9
Inspired the fictional character of Count Dracula
Vlad Tepes
Vladimir Lenin
Rasputin
Aleksandr Kerensky
10
City that was the center for the Roman Catholic Church
Rome
Constantinople
Moscow
Kiev
11
Which is true of the Eastern Orthodox Church
obeyed the Pope
encouraged the end of feudalism
helped spread the cyrillic alphabet
centered in Rome
12
Estonia, Latvia and Lituania are located by the
Baltic Sea
Caucusus Mountains
Ural Mountains
Caspian Sea
13
first democratic leader of Russia
Vladimir Putin
Aleksandr Kerensky
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
14
The collapse of the USSR led to how many new countries?
18
12
15
21
15
City that was the center for the Eastern Orthodox Church
Kiev
Moscow
Constantinople
Rome
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Which is NOT true of the Roman Catholic Church
helped spread the Roman alphabet
obeyed the Pope
centered in Constantinople
encouraged the end of feudalism
17
Country on Balkan Pen. that broke into civil war in the 1990s due to ethnic diversity
Greece
Austria-Hungary
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
18
__ led the ___ Revolution to bring communism to Russia
Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik
Mikhael Gorbachev, Perestroika
Karl Marx, Borsht
Joseph Stalin, Bushido
19
Russian capital city under the czars, located on the Gulf of Finland
Kiev
Warsaw
St Petersburg
Moscow
20
per capita means
per person
per family
per politics
per country
21
the "mad monk" who helped the royal family, but who most Russians hated
Rasputin
Vladimir Lenin
Aleksandr Kerensky
Vlad Tepes
22
World Event that brought hardships that led to the Russian Revolution
Cold War
World war II
World War I
Industrial Revolution
23
the last czar of Russia
Rasputin
Ivan
Nicholas II
Aleksandr
24
Former-Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, and Romania are located on which peninsula
Kamchatka
Crimean
Balkan
Iberian
25
Most of the population of Russia lives
in Siberia
near rivers or on coasts
west of the the Ural Mountains
east of Ural Mountains
26
If someone were convicted of a crime, you might spend time in a __
yurt
czar
steppe
gulag
27
evacuated and remains uninhabited as a result of nuclear disaster in 1986
Nizhny Novgorod
Yekaterinburg
Chernobyl
Baikal
28
followers of the policies of Karl Marx, the red army
Perestroika
Anti Bolsheviks
Marxians
Bolsheviks
29
Peninsula in Eastern Russia ; north of the Sea of Omhotsk
Balkan
Iberian
Crimean
Kamchatka
30
The picture depicts which vocabulary word meaning mobile dwelling
serf
gulag
yurt
steppe
31
Which event led to the collapse of the Soviet Union
the end of the WWII
the beginning of the Cold War
The beginning of Vietnam War
the fall of the Berlin Wall
32
What area is best known for Permafrost
Central Republics
Siberia
Baltic States
Caucusus Republics
33
Current Leader of Ukraine
Mikhail Gorbachev
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Vladimir Putin
Rasputin
34
Peninsula in Black sea that Russia took back from Ukraine
Crimean
Balkan
Kamchatka
Iberian
35
2nd leader of the USSR who used purges and population transfers to keep people in line.
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Karl Marx
Vladimir Putin
36
system that was west of the Iron Curtain
democracy
autocracy
communism
anarchy
37
What city was a "free" city completely surrounded by communist territory
E. Berlin
Rome
W. Berlin
Kiev
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major ethnic group of Eastern Europe
Germans
Anglos
Latins
Slavs
39
program enacted by czars that required people to speak Russian and be Christians
Gulag
Russianification
taiga
Cold war
40
largest inland lake in the world
ARal Sea
Caspian Sea
Black Sea
Lake Baikal
41
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Cold war
arms build up
space race
brutal fighting on the battlefield
geopolitical tension
42
Which ethnic group built towns in early Russia?
Caspians
Caspians
Slavs
Vikings
43
current leader of Russia
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Putin
Boris Yeltsin
Aleksandr Kerensky
44
Gorbachev's plan for restructuring of USSR
Borsht
Perestroika
Babuska
Glastnost
45
German writer of Communist Manifesto who inspired the Russian Revolution; father of communism
Karl Marx
Rasputin
Vladimir Lenin
Vlad Tepes
46
Which of these would affect the standard of living of a country
religion
health care
precipitation
language
47
mountains that separate Europe and Asia
Andes Mountains
Ural Mountains
Caucusus
Carpathian Mountains
48
Russian word for king
gulag
steppe
yurt
czar
49
system that was East of the Iron Curtain
anarchy
communism
autocracy
democracy
50
The purpose of the EU is
military defense
an organization for civil rights
a peace keeping organization
an economic and trade organization
51
theoretical division between communist and democratic Europe
Iron curtain
Brandenburg Gate
Berlin wall
Nylon Fence
52
Which capital would recieve the most sunlight on June 21
Slovenia
Estonia
Slovakia
Albania
53
Russia area ranks __ in the world
fourth
third
second
first