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Geography chp 19-20
Central and Eastern Europe/Siberia
Question | Answer |
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What is an independent polish worker's labor union? | Solidarity |
What deals with economics and private businesses? | Perestroika |
What is Asian Russia? | Siberia |
What is the massacre of 6 million Jews from across Europe? | Holocaust |
What is permanently frozen soil? | Permafrost |
What covers most of Siberia? | Permafrost |
What was a struggle between the communist East and democratic West? | Cold War |
What means to break up into small mutually hostile political units? | Balkanization |
What is a revolution without blood shed? | Velvet Revolution |
Which lake is the world's deepest lake, largest freshwater lake, and holds 20% of the earth's fresh water? | Lake Baikal |
What is an economy where the government controls what and how much is produced? | Command Economy |
What is an inland sea with warm summers and beach resorts? | Black Sea |
What is the movement for freedom of speech? | Glastnost |
What are government owned farms in which the workers share the profits earned? | Collective Farms |
What year did communists end private ownership of farms? | 1948 |
What is a system in which the government controls almost all aspects of political and economic life? | Communism |
What is a treeless plan in an arctic area where short grasses grow? | Tundra |
What type of ecosystem is located where Europe touches the Arctic Ocean? | Tundra |
What is another name for coniferous forests? | Taiga |
What vegetation is south of the tundra? | Taiga |
What is the sense of what characteristics make a nation a nation? | National Identity |
What is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization? | NATO |
What is the name for a series of monarchs in Russia? | Czars |
What is when goods and services move unofficially without formal record keeping? | Black Market |
What was the conversion of state-run industries into private firms during the post-communist economic restructuring? | Privatization |
What years did World War 1 occur? | 1914-1918 |
What year did the Russian Revolution take place? | 1917 |
What is to get rid of a certain ethnic group? | Ethnic Cleansing |
What is the name of a mountain range in Western Europe? | Ural Mountains |
What is a social system based on the principle of individual rights (free market, laissez-faire) | Capitalism |
What is a city in the Ukraine that had a disaster involving a nuclear power plant? | Chernobyl |
What is the capital of Russia? | Moscow |
What is Europe's longest river? | Volga River |