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Russia, Eurasia Flashcards

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What man was the third president in Russia?

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Dmitry Medvedev

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What leader was known for killing his enemy’s, or making them disappear?

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Joseph Stalin

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If Karl Max met Joseph Stalin, what reaction about communism would they both have???

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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

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The leader in USSR allowed the Berlin Wall to come down, resulting in the eventual brake up in the USSR

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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This leader overcame the Czar with the Bolshevic party to form the first communist USSR

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Vladimir Lenin

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The person was responsible for the first ideas that eventually became communism and wrote “The Communist Manifesto”

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Karl Marx

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The US president was in office during the ‘Bay of Pigs’ Crisis

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Kennedy

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The landform and continent where Moscow is located

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Europe and North European Plain

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This Desert covers 70 percent of the land in Turkmestan

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Kara Kim

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The largest inland body in the world

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The Caspian Sea

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The mountain range near Armenia and Azerbaijan

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Caucasus Mountins

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A nearly treeless, grassy plain, with very little rain fall

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Steppe

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A vital transportation route (river) in Western Russia

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Volga River

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A lake located in southeastern Russia, the largest and deepest freshwater body in the world

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Lake Baikal

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The landform that separates Europe from Asia

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Ural Mountains

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The town in Kazakhstan where the Aral Sea is reappearing

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Uzbekistan

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Uzbekistan’s Shrinking sea due to cotton production

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Aral Sea

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Huge, subarctic evergreen forest within Siberia that provides a vast supply of lumber

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Taiga

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The vast, rolling treeless plains north of the Arctic circle

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Tundra

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Communism began an attempt to eliminate this

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Social classes And rich versus poor

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This country held weapons for the USSR, resulting in a 14 day period of great tension

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Cuba

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During Czarist Russia, these people were bought and sold to the land

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Serfs

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This book was called the “Bible of the Working Class”

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Communist Manifesto

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During the cold war these were stockpiled by the Russians

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Nuclear weapons

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Russian troops invaded this territory in 1994, After they attempted to declare independence. Since then they have become a rebellious ethnic group.

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Chechnya

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This was built in the early 20th century and connected to the far eastern part of Russia and Moscow

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Trans-Siberian Railroad

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Manufacturing product such as tanks, steel, and machines (Which Stalin focused on)

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Heavy industry

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The green fertile place inside a desert

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Oasis

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When power is divided between state and national government

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A mixed economy or federal republic

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A policy Mikhail Gorbachev put in place,allowing people to speak freely.

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Glasnost

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The leather tents nomads lived in

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Yurts

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A group not in control of wealth or power

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Minority group

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Gorbachev’s policy of economic restructuring, moving from communists to free enterprise

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Perestroika

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The 4-football field wide cultural center in Moscow

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Red square

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Opening in Berlin wall

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Brandenburg gate

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Famous Russian ballet dancer

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Mikhail Baryshnikov

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The first president of new Russia

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Boris Yeltsin

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The currency of Russia

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Rouble

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Most people in Central Asian republics are this religion

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Is Islamic or Muslim

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The people of Armenia and this country have major land disputes

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Azerbaijan

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