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Test 14
Chapter 15
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History
5th Grade
12/10/2012

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A famous Russian composer
Definition
Tchaikovsky
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A famous Russian food
Definition
black caviar
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Brutal Soviet dictator responsible for the Great Purge
Definition
Stalin
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Capital of Bulgaria
Definition
Sofia
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Capital of Czech Republic
Definition
Prague
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Capital of Hungary
Definition
Budapest
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Capital of Poland
Definition
Warsaw
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Capital of Romania
Definition
Bucharest
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Capital of Russia
Definition
Moscow
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Capital of Slovakia
Definition
Bratislava
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Capital of Ukraine
Definition
Kiev
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Communist leader who began the programs of Glasnot and Perestroika
Definition
Gorbachev
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Communists and other people who believe there is no God
Definition
atheists
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Europe's highest peak
Definition
Mt. Elbrus
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Europe's longest river
Definition
Volga
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Gorbachev tried to maintain his power by allowing ___
Definition
Perestroika and Glasnot
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Largest level region in the world
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Western Siberian Plain
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The "breadbasket of Europe"
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Hungary
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The 3 Baltic States
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Latvia
Lithuania
Estonia
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The Communist leader who threatened to "bury" the United States
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Khrushchev
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The French emperor who attempted to conquer Russia
Definition
Napoleon
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The Russian title which means "emperor"
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czar
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The Viking tribe Russia was named after
Definition
Russ
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The extremely cold region north of Asian Russia once used as a "prison" by both the czars and the Communists
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Siberia
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The first czar of Russia
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Ivan the Terrible
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The founder of Communism
Definition
Marx
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The largest financial contributor to the United Nations
Definition
The United States
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The last czar of Russia
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Nicholas II
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The leader of Solidarity in Poland
Definition
Lech Walesa
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The leader of the first Communist state
Definition
Lenin
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The leader of the first Communist state
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Lenin
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The most powerful man in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union
Definition
Yeltsin
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The mountains dividing European Russia from Asian Russia
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Urals
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The name given to Stalin's reign of terror
Definition
Great Purge
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The organization founded at the end of World War II to promote world peace
Definition
United Nations
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The second largest country in Europe
Definition
Ukraine
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The second-largest European country after Russia
Definition
Ukraine
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The system of government that says there is no God and allows no freedom
Definition
Communism
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The traditionally nomadic people who have one of their largest settlements in Romania
Definition
Gypsies
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The two straits controlled by Turkey that gives Russia access to the Black Sea
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Bosporus
Dardanelles
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The union organized by Lech Walesa in Poland
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Solidarity
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The use of deceptive means to try to convince people of something
Definition
propaganda
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The war Russia lost against England, France, Turkey, and Sardina
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Crimean War
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Three famous Russian writers
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Chekhov
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
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What Russian Communists were also known as
Definition
Bolsheviks
Term
World's deepest freshwater lake
Definition
Lake Baikal
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World's largest country
Definition
Russia
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the first true national leader of a united Russia
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Ivan III
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