Chapter 14 Flashcards

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The first czar of Russia

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Ivan the Terrible

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He was the first true national leader of a United Russia

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Ivan III

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The last czar of Russia

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Nicholas II

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The French Emperor who attempted to conquer Russia

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Napoleon

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The founder of communism

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Marx

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The leader of the first communist state

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Lenin

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The Communist leader who threatened to bury the United States

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Khrushchev

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The most powerful man in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union

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Boris Yeltsin

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Russia was named after the Viking tribe known as what

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The Rus

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The Russian title which means Emperor

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Czar

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Russian Communists were also known as this

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Bolsheviks

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The system of government that says there is no God and allows people no freedom

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Communism

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The mountains dividing European Russia from Asian Russia

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The Urals

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Extremely cold region in the North of Asia Russia once used as prison by czars and communists

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Siberia

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Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov were this

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Russian writers

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A famous Russian food that comes from fish

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Black caviar

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The second largest country in Europe

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The war that Russia lost against England, France, Turkey, and Sardinia

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The Crimean war

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The use of deceptive means to try to convince people of something

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Propaganda

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The name given to Stalin’s reign of terror

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The Great Purge

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Gorbachev tried to maintain his power by allowing perestroika and

21
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Let Wilentz organized a union in Poland called

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Solidarity

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The organization founded at the end of World War II to promote world peace

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The United Nations

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The traditionally nomadic people who have one of their largest settlements in Romania

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Out of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine which country is not a Baltic
Ukraine
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Europe's longest river
The Volga
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Europe's highest peak
Mount Elbrus
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Largest level region in the world
Western Siberian plane
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World's deepest freshwater lake
Lake Baikal
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One of the two straits controlled by turkey that gives Russia access to the Black Sea
Bosporus and Dardanelles
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Capital of Russia
Moscow
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Capital of Ukraine
Kiev
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Capital of Poland
Warsaw
33
Capital of Czech Republic
Prague
34
Capital of Slovakia
Bratislava
35
Capital of Hungary
Budapest
36
Capital of Romania
Bucharest
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Capital of Bulgaria
Sofia