Russia, Eurasia Flashcards
What man was the third president in Russia?
Dmitry Medvedev
What leader was known for killing his enemy’s, or making them disappear?
Joseph Stalin
If Karl Max met Joseph Stalin, what reaction about communism would they both have???
Karl Max: every one should be equal; farmers and workers should run the country by sharing all their money
Joseph Stalin: communism is about a leader taking over the country and exercising total and complete control of people
The leader in USSR allowed the Berlin Wall to come down, resulting in the eventual brake up in the USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev
This leader overcame the Czar with the Bolshevic party to form the first communist USSR
Vladimir Lenin
The person was responsible for the first ideas that eventually became communism and wrote “The Communist Manifesto”
Karl Marx
The US president was in office during the ‘Bay of Pigs’ Crisis
Kennedy
The landform and continent where Moscow is located
Europe and North European Plain
This Desert covers 70 percent of the land in Turkmestan
Kara Kim
The largest inland body in the world
The Caspian Sea
The mountain range near Armenia and Azerbaijan
Caucasus Mountins
A nearly treeless, grassy plain, with very little rain fall
Steppe
A vital transportation route (river) in Western Russia
Volga River
A lake located in southeastern Russia, the largest and deepest freshwater body in the world
Lake Baikal
The landform that separates Europe from Asia
Ural Mountains
The town in Kazakhstan where the Aral Sea is reappearing
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan’s Shrinking sea due to cotton production
Aral Sea
Huge, subarctic evergreen forest within Siberia that provides a vast supply of lumber
Taiga
The vast, rolling treeless plains north of the Arctic circle
Tundra
Communism began an attempt to eliminate this
Social classes And rich versus poor
This country held weapons for the USSR, resulting in a 14 day period of great tension
Cuba
During Czarist Russia, these people were bought and sold to the land
Serfs
This book was called the “Bible of the Working Class”
Communist Manifesto
During the cold war these were stockpiled by the Russians
Nuclear weapons
Russian troops invaded this territory in 1994, After they attempted to declare independence. Since then they have become a rebellious ethnic group.
Chechnya
This was built in the early 20th century and connected to the far eastern part of Russia and Moscow
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Manufacturing product such as tanks, steel, and machines (Which Stalin focused on)
Heavy industry
The green fertile place inside a desert
Oasis
When power is divided between state and national government
A mixed economy or federal republic
A policy Mikhail Gorbachev put in place,allowing people to speak freely.
Glasnost
The leather tents nomads lived in
Yurts
A group not in control of wealth or power
Minority group
Gorbachev’s policy of economic restructuring, moving from communists to free enterprise
Perestroika
The 4-football field wide cultural center in Moscow
Red square
Opening in Berlin wall
Brandenburg gate
Famous Russian ballet dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov
The first president of new Russia
Boris Yeltsin
The currency of Russia
Rouble
Most people in Central Asian republics are this religion
Is Islamic or Muslim
The people of Armenia and this country have major land disputes
Azerbaijan
