Test 14, Chapter 15 Flashcards
the first true national leader of a united Russia
Ivan III
the first czar of Russia
Ivan the Terrible
the last czar of Russia
Nicholas II
the French emperor who attempted to conquer Russia
Napoleon
the founder of Communism
Marx
the leader of the first Communist state
Lenin
the communist leader who threatened to “bury” the United States
Khrushchev
the most powerful man in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union
Yeltsin
Russia was named after the Viking tribe known as the
Rus
the Russian title which means “emperor” is
czar
Russian Communists were once also known as
Bolsheviks
The system of government that says there is no God and allows people no freedom is
Communism
The mountains dividing European Russia from Asian Russia are the
Urals
The extremely cold region in the north of Asian Russia once used as a “prison” by both the czars and the Communists is
Siberia
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov were Russian
writers
A famous Russian food is
black caviar
The second largest country in Europe is
Ukraine
the war Russia lost against England, France, Turkey, and Sardinia was
Crimean War
the use of deceptive means to try to convince people of something is
propaganda
the name given to Stalin’s reign of terror
Great Purge
Gorbachev tried to maintain his power by allowing perestroika and
glasnost
Lech Walesa organized a union in Poland called
Solidarity
The organization founded at the end of World War II to promote world peace is the
United Nations
The traditionally nomadic people who have one of their largest settlements in Romania are the
Gypsies
The 3 Baltic States
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Europe’s longest river
Volga
Europe’s highest peak
Mt. Elbrus
largest level region in the world
Western Siberian Plain
world’s deepest freshwater lake
Lake Baikal
one of the two straits controlled by Turkey that gives Russia access to the Black Sea
Bosporus & Dardanelles
capital of Russia
Moscow
capital of Ukraine
Kiev
capital of Poland
Warsaw
capital of Czech Republic
Prague
capital of Slovakia
Bratislava
capital of Hungary
Budapest
capital of Romania
Bucharest
capital of Bulgaria
Sofia
You will label the following on the map of Eastern Europe:
Volga River, Black Sea, Mt. Elbrus, Prague, Bucharest, Bulgaria, Poland, Baltic Sea, Ural Mts., Ukraine
