Chapter 13 Russia and Eurasian Republic

Chapter 13 Russia and Eurasian Republic

I. Vocabulary terms

1. Eurasia 2. Ural Mountains 3. Caspian Sea 4. Volga River

5. Siberia 6. Tundra 7. Taiga 8. Steppe

9. Czar 10. Serf 11. Peter the Great 12. Bolsheviks

13. USSR 14. Joseph Stalin 15. Totalitarian 16. Cold war

17. Mikhail Gorbachev 18. Cyrillic alphabet 19. Icon 20. Leo Tolstoy

21. Propaganda 22. Orthodox Christianity 23. Islam 24. Buddhism

25. Judaism 26. Vladimir Putin 27. Chechnya 28. Command economy

29. Market economy 30. Privatization 31. Boris Yeltsin 32. Shock Therapy

33. Transcaucasia 34. Central Asia 35. Caucasus Mountains

36. Tian Shan 37. Kara Kum 38. Aral Sea 39. Lake Balkhash

II. Questions

1. What nation ruled Transcaucasia and Central Asia until 1991?

2. Where is Transcaucasia located?

3. Where is central Asia located?

4. What mountain range runs between the Black and Caspian Sea?

5. What does it mean to say that a country is landlocked?

6. Which body of water has been shrinking?

7. What is the largest inland body of water in the world?

8. Which body of water causes Georgia to have a more moderate climate?

9. What caused environmental damage in Kazakhstan?

10. Which large desert is found in Turkmenistan?

11. What large body of water borders Russia to the south?

12. What Russian river is the longest river in the world?

13. What is the term used for the single continent, combined from two other continents, that contains the nation of Russia?

14. What north-south mountain range forms the border between European and Asian Russia?

15. What is a huge region in Asian Russia?

16. Which landform far in eastern Russia has about 20 active volcanoes?

17. What term is used to describe a treeless plain around the Arctic Circle?

18. Which body of water is the deepest of its kind in the world and holds a large percentage of fresh water?

19. What title was used for the rulers of Russia from the mid 1500’s to the early 1900’s?

20. Which ruler tried to make Russian more European?

21. Which Russian ruler was a dictator who had millions of enemies executed?

22. Which Russian ruler tried to improve the economy by increasing freedom in Russia?

23. Who were the Bolsheviks?

24. What is the name of the system in which the government holds nearly all means of production and all political power?

25. What communist nation was created in 1917?

26. What type of government controls every aspect of public and private life?

27. What was the name for the conflict between the United States and Soviet Union that never erupted into open warfare?

28. In what region to most Russians live?

29. What religion became the state religion of Russia under Vladimir I?

30. What religion in Russia has declined because persecution caused the people who believed it to leave the country?

31. What religion is based on the teachings of Muhammad?

32. What is the most famous site in Russia’s capital?

33. What alphabet is used to write the Russian language?

34. What term is used for religious paintings found in many Russian churches?

35. Who wrote the Russian novel War and Peace and influenced Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther king Jr?

36. What is the term used for information that deliberately tries to influence opinion?

37. Who was the president of Russia during the Early 2000’s and currently today?

38. Who were the secret police in East Germany?

39. Where did people meet to organize and put an end to the communist regime of East Germany?

40. Who was the person who abruptly tried to establish a market economy in Russia?

41. What region has been demanding independence from Russia?

42. What has happened to the powers of the Russian president?

43. What type of economy did Russia have when it was part of the Soviet Union?

44. What kind of economy is Russia changing to?

45. What was the plan for abrupt, widespread privatization of the economy called?

46. Why have Russians been willing to give up freedoms in recent years?

47. What type of political system did Russia have when it was part of the Soviet Union?

48. What term is used to describe the process of selling government owned businesses to individuals?

49. What two leaders from the United States and Soviet Union helped bring down the Berlin wall and reunify Germany?

50. What large body of water borders Russia to the South?