Abeka Eastern Hemisphere History and Geography Test 4 (grade 5)

Eurasia

The world's largest landmass is ____.

Siberian

The West ______ Plain is one of the world's largest regions of continuously level land.

Crimean

The __ War was fought over Russia's attempts to invade Ottoman territory.

perestroika

Gorbachev's plan to restructure the Soviet Union's business and economy was known as ___.

Yakutsk

The coldest city in the world is _.

Islam

____ is the primary religion in the five former Soviet republics of Central Asia.

Karakum

The ____ Desert covers about 70 percent of Turkmenistan.

Vladimir the Saint

The man who introduced the Russians to Eastern Orthodoxy was _____.

Nicholas II

The last czar of Russia was ____.

Karl Marx

The man whose writings promoted Communism was _____.

Vladimir Lenin

The leader of the first Communist state in history was _______.

collectivism

The system in which individuals must give up control of all property to the government is ___.

Nikita Khrushchev

The Soviet leader who supported the building of the Berlin Wall was __.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The last leader of the Soviet Union was ___.

Vladimir Putin

The Russian president whose goal was to reclaim all the land that had ever been part of the Soviet Union was _.

Kazakhstan

The world's largest landlocked country is ____.

Volga

Europe's longest river

Lake Baikal

deepest freshwater lake in the world

Ivan III

first true national leader of a united Russia

Joseph Stalin

Soviet leader during the Great Purge

Bolshevik

"one of the majority"

Siberia

"sleeping land"

Uzbekistan

"Land of the Free"

Kyrgyzstan

"Switzerland of Central Asia"

Pamir Mountains

"The Roof of the World"

E

E for Eastern Hemisphere, W for Western Hemisphere (Europe)

W

E for Eastern Hemisphere, W for Western Hemisphere (North America)

E

E for Eastern Hemisphere, W for Western Hemisphere (Australia)

W

E for Eastern Hemisphere, W for Western Hemisphere (South America)

E

E for Eastern Hemisphere, W for Western Hemisphere (Africa)

Bering Sea,Lake Baikal,Caspian Sea,Ural Mountains

Be able to label these places on a map. (use p. A35 of your text to study)

Explain (in paragraph form) at least three of the hardships people in the Soviet Union faced under the Communist government

Some examples are:

people were told where to work and live

severely limited freedoms
travel restrictions
difficult physical labor
children were required to attend government schools
government controlled education, sports, music, writing, and art
groceries were scarce
living arrangements were poorly built and overcrowded
medical care was insufficient