Chapter 14 Flashcards
The first czar of Russia
Ivan the Terrible
He was the first true national leader of a United Russia
Ivan III
The last czar of Russia
Nicholas II
The French Emperor who attempted to conquer Russia
Napoleon
The founder of communism
Marx
The leader of the first communist state
Lenin
The Communist leader who threatened to bury the United States
Khrushchev
The most powerful man in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union
Boris Yeltsin
Russia was named after the Viking tribe known as what
The Rus
The Russian title which means Emperor
Czar
Russian Communists were also known as this
Bolsheviks
The system of government that says there is no God and allows people no freedom
Communism
The mountains dividing European Russia from Asian Russia
The Urals
Extremely cold region in the North of Asia Russia once used as prison by czars and communists
Siberia
Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov were this
Russian writers
A famous Russian food that comes from fish
Black caviar
The second largest country in Europe
Ukraine
The war that Russia lost against England, France, Turkey, and Sardinia
The Crimean war
The use of deceptive means to try to convince people of something
Propaganda
The name given to Stalin’s reign of terror
The Great Purge
Gorbachev tried to maintain his power by allowing perestroika and
Glasnost
Let Wilentz organized a union in Poland called
Solidarity
The organization founded at the end of World War II to promote world peace
The United Nations
The traditionally nomadic people who have one of their largest settlements in Romania
Gypsies
Out of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine which country is not a Baltic
Ukraine
Europe’s longest river
The Volga
Europe’s highest peak
Mount Elbrus
Largest level region in the world
Western Siberian plane
World’s deepest freshwater lake
Lake Baikal
One of the two straits controlled by turkey that gives Russia access to the Black Sea
Bosporus and Dardanelles
Capital of Russia
Moscow
Capital of Ukraine
Kiev
Capital of Poland
Warsaw
Capital of Czech Republic
Prague
Capital of Slovakia
Bratislava
Capital of Hungary
Budapest
Capital of Romania
Bucharest
Capital of Bulgaria
Sofia
