Honors IR: Russia

2 things Russians respect

Power and strength

2 historic times when Russia has been attacked

Napoleon and Hitler

Scorched earth

Burning anything that may be useful for the enemy

Russia wants … in Eastern Europe to avoid invasion?

Buffer

Why doesn’t Turkey want Sweden and Finland to join NATO?

Anti-Turkish terrorists

Russians are generally…

Miserable

2 Russian authors

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

What did Dostoevsky write?

Crime and Punishment

What did Tolstoy write?

War and Peace

Alcoholism is…

Ubiquitous

Average death age in Russia

63

Russia’s population

140 million

Russia used to have … states

89

Putin lowered Russia’s number of states to…

7

Time zones in Russia

11

How many countries does Russia border?

15

What part of Russia is closest to North Korea?

Vladivostok

When was the Russian Revolution?

1917

Why did the Russian Revolution happen?

Lenin wanted to overthrow Czar Nicholas

Lenin changed Russia’s system…

USSR and communism

Lenin was helped by …

Stalin

How long did the USSR last?

1917-91

How many republics were in the USSR?

15 (Russia and 14 countries)

What’s the acronym for remembering the 15 countries who were part of the USSR?

HELL BE CRAP

5 leaders of the USSR

Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev

What does czar mean?

Caesar

Who started the Bolshevik (communist) revolution?

Lenin (Trotsky helps with ideas and Stalin figures out how to take over)

How many years does Stalin rule Russia for?

30

Who came after Stalin?

Khrushchev

Who came after Khrushchev?

Brezhnev

4 things Truman created

Marshall Plan, CIA, UN, NATO

What does NATO stand for?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

When do Russians get an atomic bomb?

1949

What does USSR stand for?

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Nuclear Arms Race lasted for … years

40

Khrushchev had battles with…

JFK

What did Khrushchev do when he came to the UN?

He banged his shoe on the podium and yelled “We will bury you”

First president to go to Moscow and China?

Nixon

Brezhnev was just focused on…

Spending and winning

When did Russia invade Hungary?

1956

When did Russia invade Czechoslovakia?

1968

When did Russia invade Afghanistan?

1979

Brezhnev was … for the economy

Bad

What does SALT stand for? (Nixon)

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

What is SALT?

Reducing nuclear weapons

When does Brezhnev die?

1982

How much did Reagan spend on military?

$300B

Gorbachev takes over from when to when?

1985-91

Who pulls Russia out of Afghanistan?

Gorbachev

Gorbachev’s goals: Spend … money on military

Less

Gorbachev’s two reforms

Glasnost (free speech) and Perestroika (free market)

Gorbachev going back and forth, refusing to go all in is referred to as?

Zig-zag

Result of zig-zag? (1989)

Protests

Who says, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall?”

Reagan

When does the Berlin Wall fall?

November 9, 1989

Reagan and Gorbachev almost agreed to give up all nuclear weapons but didn’t. Why?

Reagan wanted star wars

Today’s version of star wars…

Shooting missiles down in the sky

How long does Boris Yeltsin lead Russia?

1992-2000

Experimenting with democracy and capitalism without help from the government is referred to as?

Shock therapy

Rich businessmen with connections to the KGB

Oligarchs

Unemployment during Yeltsin?

30-40% in the cities

Why was Yeltsin corrupt?

Stolen aid in Swiss bank accounts

… about the US giving Russia bad advice

Conspiracies

Lacking a middle class that keeps the economy going

Rich-poor gap

Moscow became the … … of the world

murder capital

Marshall Plan

Rebuild Western Europe

Capital flight

Money leaving the country

Taking money from crimes and cleaning it by buying property, can’t trace the money

Money laundering

Who says that the breakup of the Soviet union was the “major geopolitical disaster of the century?”

Putin

Yeltsin named Putin as the Deputy Prime Minister aka VP. Why?

Putin found out about the Swiss bank accounts and used this to threaten Yeltsin

Putin takes power…

January 1, 2000

KGB is equivalent to the US

CIA

Putin threatened … to give up their companies and they were sometimes even murdered or fled.

Oligarchs

4 Corners of Putin taking power:

Oligarchs, corrupt politicians, crime organizations, Russian security officers

KGB is known as the … today

FSB

Muslim part of Russia that wants independence.

Chechnya

What does Chechnya have? (Resource)

Oil

Putin gets … for going after Chechnya.

Famous

Bush Jr. was … with Putin

Friendly

What part of Ukraine is closest to the Russian border?

Luhansk

Russia has the best cyber … in the world.

criminals

Who says, “Russia is at a crossroads”?

Nixon (1994)

Who claims:

* “Communism was defeated but freedom’s on trial”
* If freedom fails, Russia will revert to a new despotism
* New Russian imperialism will emerge
* US and world have a huge interest in freedom succeeding in Russia
* If freedom works, China and other countries are watching

Nixon

In what country did they pass a new media law that restricts criticism?

Georgia

Capital of Georgia

Tbilisi

Protests began in Georgia and the law was…

withdrawn

Russia blames protests near the Russian border on the US and West and is angry because Putin believes Georgia was too … on the protestors.

soft

What does ICC stand for?

International criminal court

What does IMF stand for?

International monetary fund

IMF goes to…

Developed countries

World Bank goes to…

Undeveloped countries

When did Putin turn on the US?

After invading Iraq

In 2007, … …, Putin blames US for inciting protests and trying to choose new leaders.

Munich, Germany

First president to deal with Putin?

Clinton

When Clinton flew all the way to Moscow to meet with Putin, it made him look…

desperate

Kremlin

Russian White House

What does WTO stand for?

World Trade Organization

Who donates the most to WHO?

Germany ($1.7B), Gates Foundation ($1B), USA ($700M), UK ($500M), EU ($400M)

What does IAEA stand for?

International Atomic Energy Agency

Who inspects nuclear power plants?

IAEA