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Test 14, Chapter 15 Flashcards

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the first true national leader of a united Russia

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Ivan III

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the first czar of Russia

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Ivan the Terrible

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the last czar of Russia

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Nicholas II

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the French emperor who attempted to conquer Russia

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Napoleon

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the founder of Communism

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Marx

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the leader of the first Communist state

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Lenin

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the communist leader who threatened to “bury” the United States

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Khrushchev

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the most powerful man in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union

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Yeltsin

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Russia was named after the Viking tribe known as the

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Rus

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the Russian title which means “emperor” is

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czar

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Russian Communists were once also known as

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Bolsheviks

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The system of government that says there is no God and allows people no freedom is

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Communism

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The mountains dividing European Russia from Asian Russia are the

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Urals

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The extremely cold region in the north of Asian Russia once used as a “prison” by both the czars and the Communists is

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Siberia

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Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov were Russian

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writers

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A famous Russian food is

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black caviar

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The second largest country in Europe is

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Ukraine

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the war Russia lost against England, France, Turkey, and Sardinia was

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Crimean War

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the use of deceptive means to try to convince people of something is

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propaganda

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the name given to Stalin’s reign of terror

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Great Purge

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Gorbachev tried to maintain his power by allowing perestroika and

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glasnost

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Lech Walesa organized a union in Poland called

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Solidarity

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The organization founded at the end of World War II to promote world peace is the

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United Nations

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The traditionally nomadic people who have one of their largest settlements in Romania are the

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Gypsies

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The 3 Baltic States

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Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

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Europe’s longest river

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Volga

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Europe’s highest peak

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Mt. Elbrus

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largest level region in the world

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Western Siberian Plain

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world’s deepest freshwater lake

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Lake Baikal

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one of the two straits controlled by Turkey that gives Russia access to the Black Sea

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Bosporus & Dardanelles

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capital of Russia

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Moscow

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capital of Ukraine

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Kiev

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capital of Poland

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Warsaw

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capital of Czech Republic

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Prague

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capital of Slovakia

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Bratislava

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capital of Hungary

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Budapest

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capital of Romania

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Bucharest

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capital of Bulgaria

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Sofia

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You will label the following on the map of Eastern Europe:

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Volga River, Black Sea, Mt. Elbrus, Prague, Bucharest, Bulgaria, Poland, Baltic Sea, Ural Mts., Ukraine

5th History - Old World (53 decks)

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