W Geo TEST!

People in the EU..

Have more economic stability

Siberia…

is NOT connected by water

Balkans formed…

After WWI

Russian revolution

ended monarchy rule in russia and created USSA

Mikhail Gorbachev

soviet leader that granted more economic and political in the 1980s

 economic evolution that the eastern European went through went from

command to free market 

The major reason for the Bosnian genocide was because of…

religious and ethnic tension

cold war had…

communism Vs. democracy

Boris Yeltsin…

first president of Russia in 1991 and introduced privatization to the Russian economy.

Danube is the…

2nd longest river in Europe

The Volga is the…

Longest river in Europe

Czar Nicholas romanov II | Russian Monarchy
1894-1917

characterized by suppression of the working class, Russia withdraws from WWI due to rebellions at home, and Romanov monarchy is overthrown in 1917 and the Revolution begins. 

Vladimir Lenin | USSR
1917-1924

Lead the Bolsheviks to overthrow the monarchy.

-communist 

-United all of Russia under union of soviet socialist republics(USSR)

-First leader of USSR

-dies in 1924, does not directly appoint a successor 

Josef stalin | USSR
1924-1953

-Killed his opponent (Trotsky) to gain favor for leadership after Lenin’s death.

-leader during WWII(1939-1945)

-Sparks cold war by 1950

*great purge: Suppress all opposition through a bureaucratic control and ruling through fear

-economics created five year plans causing famines

- industrialization  made Russia a world power

Nikita khrushchev | USSR
1953-1964 

-space race Program and nuclear  programs

-Allies with Castro – Cuban Missile Crisis 

-lead the tear down of the berlin wall in 1961

Leonid brezhnev | USSR
1964-1982 

-In 1968 he invaded Czechoslovakia which lead to the

-Brezhnev doctrine ~ USSR had the right to interfere  in conflicts within  Satellite Nations.

-1979: invades afghanistan  ~Made him unpopular in public

Mikhail gorbachev | USSR
1985-1991(LAST REMAINING LEADER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY)

• Glasnost – government openness to people

• Perestroika  – transition to market economy 

• demokratizatsiya – push for a democratic government 

•  -End of the cold war!! But lead to split 

  
  -He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.(TEARING DOWN THE BERLIN WALL)

Boris yeltsin | Russian Federation
1991-1999

-First Elected president  of the Russian Federation

-Pushed for

•  market  economy 

• privatization: citizens owning & controlling more resources than the governments

  - His incompetence lead to more economic  destruction 

Dmitry medvedev | Russian Federation
2008 - 2012

-Chosen by Vladimir Putin to run for president

-Largely political  of Putin

• Putin served as prime minister

• Putin’s previous policies were heavily enforced and strengthened. 

russia’s climate is mostly..

subarctic

siberia is known for…

frigid temperatures and natural resources 

lake balkan is…

located in southwestern russia 

Northern european plains have..

fertile soil

Ethnic groups broke off into their own country causing…

breakup of the former yugoslavia 

Privatization

 transfer of government services or assets to the private sector

Balkanization

region into smaller hostiles regions

Bosins

muslims

Serbs

orthodox

Glasnost

political openness 

Chernobyl

a city in north central Ukraine

Russian revolution

overthrew the imperial government and placed the Bolsheviks in power