Russia

Question 1

czar alexander II

Answer 1

freed serfs

begins limited political reforms

assassinated by anarchists in 1881

Question 2

czar alexander III

Answer 2

repressive

“Russification” persecuted Jews and non-Russians

Question 3

czar nicholas II

Answer 3

son of alexander III, continued repressive rule

Question 4

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 4

Japan attacks Russia’s Port Arthur, humiliates Russia

Theodore Roosevelt mediates peace treaty

Question 5

1905 Russian Revolution

Answer 5

led by Russian middle class, defeated

DUMA is created as a result

Question 6

what year was the Alaska territory sold to the US?

Answer 6

1867

“steward’s icebox” for secretary of state

Question 7

what marked the collapse of the Romanov dynasty?

Answer 7

World War I and Bolshevik revolution

Question 8

WWI affect on Russia

Answer 8

huge loss of life and food for Russia

Czar replaced by provisional government

Question 9

Alexander Kerensky

Answer 9

pro-western leader of DUMA

Question 10

Russian Civil War (1917-1924)

Answer 10

Anti-Bolshevik supported by Western powers vs. Bolshevik

Question 11

Leon Trotsky

Answer 11

led Bolshevik forces in Russian Civil War

Question 12

importance of July 17, 1918

Answer 12

Czar and family murdered by Bolsheviks

Question 13

Lenin (1917-1924)

Answer 13

led Communist revolution

introduces New Economic Policy in 1922

gave up 1/4 of Russia to Germans, angered West

1924 = death

Question 14

Trotsky vs. Stalin policies

Answer 14

Trotsky wanted a permanent revolution

Stalin wanted socialism in one state

Question 15

end of Trotsky’s reign

Answer 15

writes book about revolution and the betrayal of the revolution

murdered in 1940

Question 16

New Economic Policy

Answer 16

allowed limited free market

Question 17

Stalin’s Rule (1924-1953)

Answer 17

implements 5 year plan of Communism

sells food to West to get economy moving, starving millions of people

Question 18

when was the Nazi-Soviet pact signed and why was it a big deal?

Answer 18

1939

two destructive superpowers joining together was scary af

Question 19

Soviet-Nazi War (1941-1945)

Answer 19

Nazis invade in 1945

US, Britain, Soviets craft Grand Alliance

Question 20

Battle if Stalingrad in 1942

Answer 20

millions killed

turning point in the war for Western powers

Question 21

Post WWII events

Answer 21

Soviets occupy Eastern Europe and capture Berlin

Divides Germany into 4 zones, each occupied by various powers

Question 22

Clement Attlee

Answer 22

Truman-Stalin-Churchill

Potsdam convention

Question 23

when was the “iron curtain” created and who was it created by?

Answer 23

1946

Winston Churchill

Question 24

what significant event in 1949 caused the U.S. government to fear a Cold War?

Answer 24

the Soviets tested out nuclear weapons

Question 25

3 times we came close to combat warfare during the Cold War

Answer 25

Berlin Blockade, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 26

Nikita Khruschev (1953-1991)

Answer 26

de-stalinized Russia tried to reconfirm US-Russia relations, but it failed at the beginning of the Cuban missile crisis

Question 27

Lenoid Brezhnev (1964-1982)

Answer 27

took hardline w/ US increased military spending

Question 28

Soviet-Afghanistan War (1979-1989)

Answer 28

Soviets invade on Dec. 24, 1979 terrified of fundamentalist Muslim movement Carter supports Mujahadeen (whoops)

Question 29

Glasnost

Answer 29

openness state has to allow criticism and invite suggestions to survive

Question 30

Perestroika

Answer 30

reform the economic and political system

Question 31

Gorbachev (1985-1991)

Answer 31

improved U.S.-Russia relations agreed to start a nuclear treaty with Reagan

Question 32

Gorbachev's policies

Answer 32

upset hard line Communist supports the removal of the Berlin Wall in 1989

Question 33

Coup of August 1991

Answer 33

hard line Communists stage a coup and arrest Gorbachev Russian President Boris Yelsin rallies the opposition and coup collapses

Question 34

Dec. 25, 1991

Answer 34

Soviet Union dissolves

Question 35

First president of Russia

Answer 35

Boris Yelsin

Question 36

Yelsin's actions as president

Answer 36

dissolves Congress and gives more power to the president and central government resigns in 1999 due to bad health

Question 37

effects of "Shock Therapy"

Answer 37

leads to chaos and rise to oligarchs and Russian mafia

Question 38

Putin's rise to power and how he stays there

Answer 38

curtails democratic press secures his power by limiting opposition

Question 39

Dmitri Medvedev

Answer 39

becomes president in 2008, but Putin still remains as prime minister signs a nuclear treaty with Obama in 2010 but still weary of NATO expansion

Question 40

how have current US-Russia relations been strained?

Answer 40

expansion of NATO anti-democratic policies towards Putin

Question 41

Magnitsky Act

Answer 41

end prison cruelty in Russia