Flashcards in Chapters 5.1 - 5.5 Deck (50)
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______ is the largest country on earth, spanning the continents of Europe and Asia.
Russia
2
______ is the capital of Russia.
Moscow
3
_____ is considered the cultural epicenter of Russia.
St. Petersburg
4
Most of Russia has a _____ climate.
Subarctic
5
Russia is known for its tropical forests.
False
6
Uzbekistan's, Turkmenistan's, and Afghanistan's vegetation is predominantly desert.
True
7
Natural Gas is the primary resource for economic activity in Afghanistan.
False
8
Russia is comprised of many different ethnic groups.
True
9
The ______ ______, which most geographers consider the border between Europe and Asia, run through Russia's western portion.
Ural Mountains
10
The primary religion in Russia is _______ _______.
Eastern Orthodox
11
The area called ______ reaches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
Siberia
12
______ remain two major exports from the Central Asia region.
Oil and Cotton
13
In 1812, the French emperor, _____ invaded Russia and successfully captured Moscow.
Napoleon Bonaparte
14
The Ukrainian _______ power plant had a meltdown in 1986 resulting in deaths of 32 people and causing radiation Contamination to spread over millions of acres of land where many thousands of people had to be evacuated.
Chernobyl
15
Russia's population is double the population of the United States.
False
16
Northern Siberia is mostly Tundra, a frozen, treeless area.
True
17
Sweden lost the Great Northern War, which was fought between the countries of Sweden and Russia.
True
18
The Aral Sea is shrinking because the main feeding Rivers the Amu and Syr, have been largely diverted for irrigation purposes.
True
19
The large-scale movement of Siberian people begin only after the completion of the _________________in 1905.
Trans-Siberian Railroad
20
During the Cold War in 1979, the Soviet Union invaded _____________.
Afghanistan
21
The Tribe Called Rus founded the state that became Russia at the city of _________.
Kiev
22
During the 1200s, _________ invaded parts of Russia and ruled these areas for several decades.
Mongols
23
The USSR was governed according to ________ ideas.
communist
24
The Soviet Union survived until the economic and political problems made the government end in __________.
1991
25
Diverse population in Russia resulted from centuries of geographic growth add political change.
True
26
The Soviet Union did not allow religious practice for nearly 20 years.
False
27
How to say Muslims makeup between 50 and 55 percent of the population in Russia.
False
28
Imperialists are political leaders who want to take over other countries to make their own country larger and more powerful.
True
29
When the Bolsheviks gained control of the country in 1922, the new nation was called _________________.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or the Soviet Union.
30
As a response to Soviet invasion and religious restrictions, the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan created a government using the teachings of __________.
Islam
31
In 1917, the people of Russia became so tired of fighting and dying in World War 1 that they overthrew their king, _____ _______ ___.
Tsar Nicholas 11
32
A year after the new Russian Provisional Government promised democratic elections and equal rights for all, it was overthrown by radical _______ led by Vladimir Lenin.
Bolsheviks
33
_______ _____, the leader of Russia following Lenin's death, completed Lenin's process of creating a totalitarian state.
Joseph Stalin
34
Following the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, Afghanistan fell into civil war and from this emerged an intolerant, extreme Islamic movement called the _______.
Taliban
35
Leinin based his ideas on the theories of communism put forward by Karl Marx in the mid-1800s.
True
36
By the 1980s, relations between the United States and the USSR had gone from bad to worse as a nuclear arsenals on both sides grew during the Cold War.
True
37
The USSR and most of the rest of Central Asia based their economies on the principles of market capitalism.
False
38
The Russian Federation adopted its constitution in 2003.
False
39
In 1999, the Russian Prime Minister _______ _______, later made president, oversaw the invasion of Chechnya after a Chechen terrorist attack within Russia.
Vladimir Putin
40
Central Asia's five former Soviet republics- _________, _________, _________, _________, and _________- have each established similar forms of government modeled on the system Russia created.
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
41
_______ has an average life expectancy of 49 and literacy rate of less than 30 percent.
Afghanistan
42
Throughout 1800s into the 1900s, Russia, Afghanistan, and Great Britain were involved in a tense dispute over boundaries known as _________.
The Great Game
43
With an extremely conservative Islamic government in control, Afghanistan became headquarters for al-Qaeda and its leader,_______ ______ _______.
Osama bin Laden
44
________ became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan in 2004.
Hamid Karzai
45
Afghanistan has access to many major bodies of water, such as oceans or seas.
False
46
One of the few crops that grow well on Afghanistan's limited farmland is the opium poppy which is used to produce several drugs.
True
47
On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda operatives launched a successful attack on the World Trade Center, in New York City, and the Pentagon, near Washington, D.C., using civilian aircraft as weapons.
True
48
Dependence on foreign aid in Afghanistan has created a culture of compassion that makes economic development thrive.
False
49
Afghanistan was first formed in the middle of the 1700s, when a leader, _______, _______, _______, united the Pashtun peoples.
Ahmad Shah Durrani
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