Question | Answer |
led Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia | Vaclav Havel |
leader of Soviet Union who pushed space program and nuclear weapons | Nikita Khruschev |
led solidarity movement in Poland | Lech Walesa |
wrote Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
brutal dictator who established socialism in U.S.S.R. | Joseph Stalin |
Led U.S.S.R. in 1980s; sought change | Mikhail Gorbachev |
built better relationship between U.S. and Russia after fall of communism | Vladimir Putin |
leader of 1917 Russian Revolution | Vladimir Lenin |
1st elected President of Russia | Boris Yeltsin |
broke non-aggression pact during WWII | Adolf Hitler |
mass killing of 6 million Jews and other peoples during World War II | Holocaust |
dominant religion in Poland today | Roman Catholic (Jews were killed in Holocaust) |
independent Polish workers' union that pushed for economic and social change in Poland | solidarity |
capital of Czech Republic | Prague |
revolution without bloodshed | Velvet Revolution |
selling government owned industries and businesses to private owners who run them more efficiently | privatization |
workers paid by government to share products | collective farms |
original settlers of Hungary | Magyars |
go-getter individuals who start and build small businesses | entrepreneurs |
the effect and industry has in creating jobs for an economy | multiplier effect |
this country welcomed Soviet rule after WWII | Bulgaria |
Italian and Greek manufacturers will help this country due to investments | Albania |
2nd most turbulent (violent) area in world | Balkans |
3 Baltic States | Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania |
capital of Ukraine | Kiev |
"Little Russia" | Ukraine |
worst environmental disaster in world history; happened in Ukraine in 1986 | Chernobyl |
"breadbasket" of Europe | Ukraine |
a layer of permanently frozen soil | permafrost |
examples of Russia's natural resources | gold, timber, silver, oil |
Covers more than 5,000 miles from Moscow to Sea of Japan | Great Trans-Siberian Railway |
central authority decides what good will be produced | command economy |
production of goods that are used in other industries such as machines and steel | heavy industry |
capital of Russia | Moscow |
2nd biggest city in Russia | St. Petersburg |
system of social organization where government owns means of producing goods and controls economy | socialism |
policy of Soviet Union to release (or not release) info to public | glasnost |
12/21/1991 | date Communism fell in Soviet Union |
examples of Nazi concentration camps | Krakow, Auschwitz, Dakku |