Europe And Russia Flashcards

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Moraines

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piles of glacial debris

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Fjords

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Flooded valley inlets

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Polder

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Reclaimed land, drain lake and farm

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4
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Romance Language

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French, Spanish, Italian

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5
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Germanic Language

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Language North of the Alps.

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Slavic Language

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Third major language group

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Fortress Europe

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Free movement for citizens across national borders without passport inspections or checks

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Schengen Agreement

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Goal for gradual reduction of border formalities for travelers moving between EU countries

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Countries with ties to Orthodox Church

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Cyrillic alphabet (Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia and Serbia)

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Irredentism

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State policies for reclaiming lost territory and peoples

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NATO

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U.S, west Germany to south of Turkey

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Berlin Blockade

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Soviets imposed a blockade on the city, NATO air lifted supplies to the city

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Privatization

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Transfer to private ownership of firms and industries that were previously owned and operated by the state government

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14
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Russian Domain

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Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia

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Kamchatka Wilderness

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Untouched environment (China, Canada, Russia have oil rights)

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16
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Russian Environment

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Poor air quality
Low quality coal
Building industries in concentrated areas
Nuclear threat, dump waste in water

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Podzol Soils

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Acidic soils that limit farm output

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Permafrost

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Cold-climate condition, unstable seasonally frozen ground

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Trans-Siberian Railroad

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Key railroad passage to the Pacific

20
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Gulag Archipelago

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Vast collection of political prisons, inmate spent years removed from families and communities

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Russification

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Soviet policy of resettling Russians into non-Russian portions of the soviet union

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Mikrorayans

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Large, soviet-era housing projects

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Cossacks

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Slavic speaking Christians who migrate searching for freedom

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Socialist Realism

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A style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers heroically challenging nature or struggling against capitalism

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Russian Time Zones
11 Time zones, 200 million people in Russian Domain, 110 Million in Russia
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Russian Air Pollution
Clustered factories Few environment controls Low-quality coal
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Russian Water Pollution
Industrial waste Raw sewage Oil spills Pulp and paper factories polluted Lake Baikal
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Exclave
Portion of a countries territory that lies outside its contiguous land area
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Glasnost
Policy of greater openness (Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev)
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Denuclearization
Return of nuclear weapons from outlying republics to Russian control and partial dismantling
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Centralized Economic Planning
State controlled production targets and industrial outputs
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Devolution
More localized political control in Russia
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European Union
Supranational Organization with 27 countries, regional force in europe