WG EUROPE

Question 1

time of Russian Empire

Answer 1

1721-1917

Question 2

Peter the Great

Answer 2

1672-1725. Tall. Cruel. ACCOMPLISHMENTS - 1. expanded Russia, ports. 2. built up army 3. introduces European ways

Question 3

feudalism

Answer 3

social classes; kings, nobles, knights, serfs

Question 4

serf:

Answer 4

bound to the land

Question 5

final czar of Russia

Answer 5

Nicholas II, overthrown in 1917

Question 6

USSR=

Answer 6

United Soviet Socialist Republic

Question 7

how is socialism bad

Answer 7

people lose motivation

Question 8

USSR fail

Answer 8

arms race, Afghanistan, food shortages. died in 1991. broke up into 14 countries

Question 9

Industrial Revolution starts

Answer 9

started in late 1700’s, in Great Britain, supported by the coal, water, iron ore.

Question 10

Industrial Revolution problems

Answer 10

money and food demand increased

Question 11

fjord

Answer 11

canyon/valley formed by glacier erosion

Question 12

timberland

Answer 12

elevation where trees can’t grow

Question 13

misral

Answer 13

strong wind from the Alps

Question 14

siroccos

Answer 14

hot dry wind from Africa

Question 15

foehns

Answer 15

dry winter winds

Question 16

loess

Answer 16

rich soil caused by glaciers

Question 17

dike

Answer 17

large body of earth and stone

Question 18

polders

Answer 18

reclaimed land from the sea

Question 19

reparations

Answer 19

payment for damages

Question 20

sovereignty

Answer 20

self-rule

Question 21

pogrom

Answer 21

persecuton and massacre of Jews

Question 22

inteligentisia

Answer 22

intellectual elite

Question 23

socialist realism

Answer 23

limited impressionism