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capital of Slovakia
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Bratislava
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Viking tribe from whom russia got its name
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Rus
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capital of Czech Republic
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Prague
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Russian title meaning "emperor"
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Czar
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capital of Poland
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Warsaw
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person who believes there is no God
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atheist
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capital of Belarus
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Minsk
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first czar of Russia
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Ivan the Terrible
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capital of Ukraine
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Kiev
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most powerful man in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union
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Yeltsin
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capital of Russia
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Moscow
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one of the most brutal rulers of all time
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Stalin
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leader of the first Communist state in history
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Lenin
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founder of Communism
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Marx
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last czar ofRussia
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Nicholas II
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French emporer who occupied Moscow, and then withdrew because of bitter cold winter
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Napoleon
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capital of Hungary
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Budapest
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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 Romania
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Bucharest
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world's deepest freshwater lake
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Lake Baikal
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Capital of Bulgaria
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Sofia
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largest level region in the world
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Western Siberian Plain
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capital of Albania
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Tirane
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Europe's highest peak
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Mount Elbrus
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largest country in the world
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Russia
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Europe's longest river
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Volga
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Tolstoy, Dostoesvsky, and chekhove were noted for their contributions as
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writers
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name the mountains which divide European Russia from Asian Russia
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Ural Mountains
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name the traditionally nomadic people with one of their largest settlements in Romania
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Gypsies
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Why are Latvia Lithuania and Estonia called the Baltic States?
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Because they are located on the Baltic Sea
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name the first true national leader of united Russia
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Ivan III
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famous Russian food
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Black Caviar
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early Russian followers of Marx
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Bolsheviks
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organization founded at the end of WWII to promote world peace
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United Nations
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system of government that says there is no God and allows people no freedom
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Communism
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term meaning "openness"
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Glasnost
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war Russia lost against England, France, Turkey, and Sardinia
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Crimean War
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term meaning "restructuring" of business
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Perestroika
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use of deceptive means to try to convince people of something
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propaganda
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Stalin's reign of terror became known as this
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Great Purge
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Be able to identify the following places on a map.
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Ukraine, Volga River, Ural Mts. Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Mt. Elburs, Poland, Prague, Bulgaris, Bucharest
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