Russia and the Western Republics

Question 1

Who intially settled?

Answer 1

Vikings

Question 2

When did the Mongols invade? How long did they have control?

Answer 2

1200’s, 200 years

Question 3

What bad things did Mongols do?

Answer 3

kept Russia isolated from Europe (the Renaissance)

Question 4

What good things did the Mongols do?

Answer 4

influence military and politcal organization

Question 5

Who took over in the 1500’s? What did they do?

Answer 5

Ivan the Great, ended foreign rule and expanded

Question 6

Who took over in 1682?

Answer 6

Peter the Great

Question 7

When did Peter the Great take control?

Answer 7

1682

Question 8

Who was Peter the Great and what did he do?

Answer 8

He was very Western minded, moved the captials to St. Petersburg

Question 9

What is a Bolshevik?

Answer 9

Russian communist part, the first COMM gov

Question 10

When was the Russian Revolution?

Answer 10

1917-1923

Question 11

What did Lenin, the leader of the COMM party do?

Answer 11

Had Czar Nicholas Romanov and his family arrested and executed (Anastasia)

Question 12

When was World War 2?

Answer 12

1939-1945

Question 13

Who was in charge during WW2?

Answer 13

Stalin

Question 14

What is Holodomor?

Answer 14

Famine in Ukraine - workers didn’t produce enough, Stalin didn’t feed them, 5 mil dead

Question 15

How many died in Holodomor?

Answer 15

5 mil

Question 16

When was the Cold War?

Answer 16

1945-1991

Question 17

What happened during the Cold War?

Answer 17

Tensions between US and USSR, USSR trying to spread communism, proxy wars

Question 18

When was the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war?

Answer 18

1962

Question 19

Who is Mikhail Gorbachev and what did he do?

Answer 19

worked with US to open Soviet Union, Glasnost and Perestroika

Question 20

When did COMM being to fall, and after what event?

Answer 20

1991, after Berlin Wall 1989

Question 21

What is a Gulag?

Answer 21

a Soviet labor camp with people who ‘broke the law’

Question 22

What did Stalin do after people revolted?

Answer 22

created KGB, Gulag, fear tactics, purges

Question 23

How many deaths is Stalin responsible?

Answer 23

25 million

Question 24

What is a collective farm?

Answer 24

peasants forced to work on tracts of land to produce food (famine)

Question 25

What is the main religion(s)?

Answer 25

Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism

Question 26

What unique architecture do they have?

Answer 26

Onion domes

Question 27

Dachas and banyas?

Answer 27

summer homes and bath houses