13.2 World Cultures

Question 1

Czar-

Answer 1

-the title given to an emperor of Russia’s past

Question 2

Serf-

Answer 2

a farm laborer who could be bought and sold along with the land

Question 3

Genocide-

Answer 3

the mass murder of people from a particular ethnic group

Question 4

Communism-

Answer 4

system of government in which the government controls the way goods and services

Question 5

Collectivization-

Answer 5

a system in which small farms were combined into a huge, state-run enterprise with work done by mechanized techniques in the hopes of making farming more efficient and reducing the need for farm workers

Question 6

Slavs (what ethnic groups make up Slavs)

Answer 6

Poles
Serbs
Ukrainians

Question 7

What is Russia’s most practiced religion today

Answer 7

Russian Orthodoxy

Question 8

Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)

Answer 8

defeated the Mongols
powerful ruler of Russia

Question 9

Peter the Great

Answer 9

a Caesar of Russia
attempted to turn Russia into a major power
died in 1725

Question 10

Catherine the Great

Answer 10

an Empress of Russia
during the late 1700s
caused the development of education, journaling, architecture, and theater

Question 11

Czar Nicholas II

Answer 11

a Caesar
last Russian emperor
Strikes and demonstrations in 1905 nearly ended his reign.

Question 12

How did World War I begin

Answer 12

an assassination by a Bosnian terrorist named Gavrilo Princip
He assassinated the Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
on June 28, 1914

Question 13

The Armenian Genocide

Answer 13

During the war, the Ottoman Turks accused an ethnic minority living in their empire called the Armenians.
forced into camp to work till death
The mass murder of vast numbers of an ethnic or cultural group is called genocide.

Question 14

Karl Marx

Answer 14

a German philosopher
His writings remade Russia into a communist state.

Question 15

The Bolshevik Revolution

Answer 15

the Russian Communist Party
led by Vladimir Lenin
seized power in Russia

Question 16

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 16

leader of the Bolshevik Revolution
died in 1924

Question 17

Joseph Stalin

Answer 17

After Lenin died, he became the leader of the Soviet Union
He used his terror to force the Soviet Union into a communist dictatorship.

Question 18

Which side did the Russians fight on during World War II?

Answer 18

allied powers

Question 19

Dividing up of Germany after World War II

Answer 19

The Soviet Union teamed up with the United States and Great Britain during WWII and defeated the Nazis.
After WWII, Germany was divided up between Britain, France, the US, and the Soviet Union.
Britain, France, and the US maintained a democratic form of government during the rebuilding process in Germany. The Soviets wanted the new German government to be communist.

Question 20

Marshall Plan (look it up on your own)

Answer 20

a US program that provided financial aid to Western Europe after World War II (exact words from Google)

Question 21

What caused the Cold War

Answer 21

political and economic differences post-World War II

Question 22

What was the USSR?

Answer 22

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
it was a communist nation
satellites:
Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria, and East
Germany

Question 23

NATO (what is its purpose)

Answer 23

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
any attack on a member of NATO is an attack on all of the members

Question 24

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 24

in October 1962
after leaving, the Soviets were sending missiles to Cuba
the US set up a naval blockade

Question 25

Alexander Dubcek

Answer 25

In 1968, Alexander Dubcek announced he wanted to give the press more freedom and guarantee citizens’ civil rights. Czechoslovakian leader

Question 26

In what year did the Soviet Union collapse?

Answer 26

1991

Question 27

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 27

Soviet leader in the 1980s last leader of the Soviet Union He was apart of the Glasnose and the Perestroika. He was unliked by a group so they captured him and eventually released him. When his reign was over the Soviet Union was dissolved.

Question 28

Glasnost

Answer 28

meaning openness QUESTION

Question 29

Perestroika

Answer 29

meaning restructuring QUESTION

Question 30

Removal of the Berlin Wall

Answer 30

in Germany The Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin was torn down. By the next year, East and West Germany were reunited.

Question 31

Solidarity in the Soviet Satellites

Answer 31

in 1980 dozens of Polish trade unions joined together to form Solidarity it used strikes to put pressure on the government the Polish government declared it illegal, so it became a secret and underground organization