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The - mountains are apart of alpine system that dominates in the south |
Carpathian, Balkan, and dinaric |
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Easy Europe has - topography |
Krast |
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Krast topography = |
Caves, sinkhole, underground rivers, rocky |
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Carpathian mountains separated by - |
Basins |
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The - form climate barrier between - climate of Danube river valley and - climate south of mountains |
Balkan ; continental; transitional |
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- occupy lowlands to north of Carpathian mountains |
Plains |
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The- links trade with north and black sea, apart of Roman Empire, and through- countries |
Danube river ; 9 |
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Eastern Europe has - climate , and black sea has - climate |
Hc ; hc and hs |
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The - make Danube region |
Carpathian, Balkan, and Hungarian plain |
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- use Danube to make hydroelctrity because - |
Romania and Latvia ; lack of other energy resources |
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Poland is famous for - aka - |
Amber ; Baltic gold |
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Most people live around - in eastern Europe |
Hungarian plain |
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Russia has two mountain ranges |
Ural and Caucasus |
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- form barrier between- Russia And - Russia |
Ural ; European; Siberian |
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Russian highest peaks = - in - mountains |
Elbrus ; Caucasus |
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Southern part of - has water ways and rich Soil called - |
Northern European plain ; chernozem |
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_ is huge low-lying land that has harsh continental climate |
Siberian plain |
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The - river is important in Russia for -,-,&- |
Commercial, transport, hydroelectric |
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Russia's abundant resources are in - |
Remote locations = Siberia |
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Russia's resources = |
Borreal forest (1/5 of forest) Coal, oil, natural gas Leading in Nickle w/ aluminum, gems Hydroelectric |
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Top 3 religions in Easter Europe |
Orthodox Roman Catholic Islam |
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Largest ethnic group.in eastern europe. |
Slavic |
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9 Presidents in order of Russia |
Lenin Stalin, Khrushchev Brezhnev Gorbachev Yetsin Putin Medvedev Putin |
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Leader of violent group of Russians who overthrew gov in - |
Lenin : 1917 |
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United nations which became - |
Lenin ; ussr |
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Created 5 yr plans to industrialize |
Stalin |
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Stopped all opposition and deaths tool = - |
Stalin ; 30 mill |
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Started space program |
Khrushchev |
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Started deployment of nuclear missiles in- ; because known as - |
Khrushchev ; Cuba; Cuban missile crisis |
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Strengthen iron curtain aka - in - |
Khrushchev ; Berlin wall ; 1961 |
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Ceded Crimea to - |
Khrushchev ; Ukraine |
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Made decision to invade Afghanistan in - (what was happening in Afghan) |
Brezhnev ; 1979 ; unpopular comm regime struggled to hold power |
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SU had right to interfere with internal.stuggle of satellite nations |
Brezhnev |
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Glasnost = |
Openness |
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Perestroika |
Reconstruct economy |
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Demonkratizatsia |
Democracy |
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Intored glasnost, perestroika, and demonkratizatsia in Russia to monderize communism |
Gorbachev |
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Attempts of reform ended - and caused - |
Gorbachev ; end of ussr aka 15 countries splitting |
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Gorbachev received nobel prize in - |
1990 |
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Top priority was acceleration of economic reconstruct with gov overseeing privatization |
Yeltsin |
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Economy failed with inflation in - term(s) |
Yeltsin |
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First republically elected of Russia |
Yeltsin |
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Decentralization if power ; erosion of democratic institutions |
Putin |
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Did everything Putin wanted |
Medvedev |
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Removed term limites. |
Medvedev |
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Pres of Belarus ; is a - |
Lukashenko ; dictator |
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Prez of Ukraine ; dealing with - |
Poroshenko ; Crimea |
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Lenin terms |
17-24 |
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Stalin terms |
24-53 |
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Khrushchev terms |
53-64 |
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Brezhnev terms |
64-82 |
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Gorbachev terms |
85-91 |
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Yeltsin terms |
91-99 |
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Putin terms |
99-008 ; 12-today |
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Medvedev terms |
008- 12 |
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Russian rev ended - and was lead by - and happened - with the goal of - |
Monarchy ; Lenin; 1917 ; equality |
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Ideological war with west - |
Cold war |
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Collapse of USSR in - and resulted in - and is still - |
1991 ; 15 countries , improve economy; in Ukraine |
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Pop stage if Russia |
Stage 5 |
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80% of pop of Russia live - with high pop density in - |
West if Ural ; Moscow |
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Gov pay couples to - in Russia because- |
Make families ; again pop |
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In 1991, - increased in pop in Russia due to - |
Death and slow growth; having to pay for health |
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- religion in Russian core and - in west |
Russian orthodox ; r. Ortho and Catholic |
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#1 culture in Russia |
Slavic |
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People say they're atheist because - |
Russian gov promted it and hated diff ethnic |
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Women roles shifted from - to - in Russia |
Industrial to service |
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Edu. In Soviet Russia had - |
Balanced curriculum |
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After 1991, - was allowed and - was legalized in 2001 |
Privatization; sale if land |
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Lots of - in Russia |
Corruption and organized crime |
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Fertile triangle = - |
W. Russia to Ukraine |
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Ukraine is - to Russia |
Strategic port for agriculture |
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Russia has - railroad |
Trans Siberian |
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Russia has - zones with caused - to drop |
Special economic zones ; prices |
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Ethnic cleansing and who |
Killing of a ethnic group, Bosnian Croat and Muslims affects most, but everyone was effected |