Social Studies: Russia

Social Studies: Russia

Study Guide Over 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3

What This Study Guide WIll GO Over

• Key points in essay questions

• QUestions from the mini quizzes on Pearson

• Information and questions from the book

• Information and questions on graphics from the book

• Important factsd found on Pearson's videos

Multiple Choice

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Which of the following factors poses the greatest economic challenge to Russians?

• lack of farmland in western Russia

• lack of coastline

• scarcity of resources

• great distances between places

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Despite its great size, Russia has few...

• good harbors.

• resources.

• lowlands.

• mountains.

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Most of Asian Russia has what type of climate?

• continental

• semiarid

• tundra

• subartic

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What factor most explains why the majority of Russians live in the western part of the country?

• climate

• government regulations

• language

• natural resources

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Which of the following resources have been the main contributors to Russia’s wealth in recent years?

• gold and silver

• oil and natural gas

• hydropower and timber

• coal and iorn

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How did Catherine the Great change Russia?

• She modernized and westernized it.

• She expanded Russia's territory.

• She founded the Kievan Rus.

• She reforemd Russia's economy.

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Why did Alexander II’s reforms fail to help poor Russian peasants?

• He westernized Russia, which forced them into becoming serfs.

• His October Manifesto did not increase their wages.

• He forced them onto collective farms, which did not produce large crops.

• He made serfs pay nobles for land, leaving them poor

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Which of the following economic changes did the Soviets make to Russia?

• collectivizing farms and industrializing

• reducing government control of the economy

• eliminating poverty and shortages

• allowing serfs to own their own land

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Which of the following made the Soviet Union a communist economy?

• Collectivization evenly distributed goods and services.

• The state controlled all economic decisions.

• Agriculture made up most of the economy

• The economy was driven by a heavy indusrty

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What is the key difference between communist and free enterprise economic systems?

Response

• how many goods are produced

• who makes economic decisions

• the cost of goods and services

• how goods are distributed to consumers

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How did the end of the Soviet Union create uncertainty for Russians?

• Russians had to worry about foreign relations much more than they had during the Cold War.

• Russians had to adjust to a new free market system that was very different from the communist system.

• Russians had to get used to powerful leaders, which they had not had during communist rule.

• Russians had to adjust to a communist economy that was very different from the free enterprise system.

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Which of the following is evidence that President Putin’s economic reforms helped Russia’s people?

• Russia's poverty rate fell.

• Ownership of companies is more widely shared.

• Many Russians prefer the Soviet era.

• The state took control of the oil and gas industry.

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How did President Putin demonstrate Russia’s growing military power?

• rebuilding nuclear weapons

• invading Afganistan

• going to war with Iran

• defeating Chechen rebels

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Putin put the energy industry of Russia under government control, which most clearly represented:

• an effort to end corruption

• a breakdown in national security

• a step back from free enterprise

• a return to communism

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Relations between Russia and the United States are sometimes tense because Russia:

• remains a firm political ally of the European Union.

• trades with and provides support to Iran and Syria.

• refuses to tap its oil and natural gas reserves.

• declines to participate in international organizations, such as the G-8.

What happened in: 1237

Batu, grandson of Genghis Khan, led Mongol troops and tore into Russia. Soon, Russia was part of the Mongol Empire. The Mongols were cruel Russians were forced to pay heavy taxes. It was "do what the Mongols wanted or else".

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Answer Based On Previous Text:

Who took over Russia?

• The Vikings

• The Mongols

• The Spanish

• The US

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What is Russia's Capital?

• Saint Petersburg

• Moscow

• Washington D.C.

• Shangahi

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WHo is the ruler of Russia?

• vladimir llich Lenin

• Vladimir Putin

• Donald Trump

• Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov

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What is Alexader ll most known for?

• Freeing the serfs in 1861, yet making them pay nobles for land

• Starting World War ll

• Signing the October Manifesto

• Building the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg

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What is communism?

• A political and economic system of government in which government owns all property and makes all economic decisions

• A government of the people. The people get to make their own decisions and vote on who their president will be.

• A system of government where thre is a group of people who make the decisions for themselves.

Facts About Vladimir Lenin

• Lived from 1870-1924

• Was a Bolshevik leader during the 1917 Russian Revolution, and then leader of Russia's communist government

• An activist before the Revolution

• Was arrested by the tsar's government and fled to Western Europe

• During World War l, returned to Russia and led the Bolshevik forces that overthrew the Russian government and seized power

• Remained leader of the Communist Party and the Russian government through a bitter civil war

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Vladimir Lenin...

• was arrested by the tsar's government and fled to Western Europe.

• Was a supporter of a democracy

• A Bolshevik leader during the 1917 Russian Revolution, and ten leader of Russia's communist government

• Lived from 1870-1934

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Facts About Siberia:

• In the Asian part of Russia

• In the Europe part of Russia

• one of the coldest places in the world

• Home of the world's deepest lake, Lake Baikal

Who was Peter the Great?

• A tsar of Russia from 1682, born in 1672, until his death, in 1725.

• A ruler, who, under his rule, had Russia become a more modern and European country.

• Built a European-style capital, Saint Petersburg, on the shores of the Baltic Sea.

• Forced Russian noblemen to shave their beards, in the style then in fashion in Western Europe

• Reformed the Russian Orthodow Church, and made Russia a more important power by defearting Sweden and other enemies in the Great Northern War

Multiple Choice

Which facts are true about Peter the Great, based on the previous slide?

• Forced Russian nobleman to shave their head hair into the fashion in Western Europe

• Reformed the Russian Chrisitan Church, and made Russia a more important power by defeating Sweden and other enemies in the Great Northern War

• Built a European-style capital, Saint Petersburg, on the shores of the Medditeranian Sea

• Was tsar of Russia from 1682 until his death

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What is glasnost, and who greatly supported it, or initiated it?

• the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev

• a system of government were the government tells the people about everything going on, being very open, initiated by Vladimir Putan

• The political process in which the government surveys everyone, yet doesn't make all decisions, supported by Leonardo De'vinche

Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?

• a government official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for many years

• Served as president of the Soviet Union from 1990-91

• During the 1980's, he worked hard to help the Soviet economy grow, pushing for reforms, that would lead to technological modernization, increasing productivity, and a more efficient Soviet bureaucracy.

• In the late 1980's, became of supporter of glasnost, and perestrokia, or restruturing

• Recieved the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990

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How well do you known Mikhail Gorbachev?

• a supporter of a democracy, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991

• Many of his efforts paved the way for the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991

• a government official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for many years

What factors led to the Russian Revolution?

• The revolution is dated back to November 1917 when Bolshevik Party forces took over the government offices in Petrograd.

• Weak leadership of Czar Nicholas II—clung to autocracy despite changing times Widespread suffering under autocracy—a form of government in which one person, in this case the czar, has absolute power

• Poor working conditions, low wages, and hazards of industrialization

• Devastation of World War I—high casualties, economic ruin, widespread hunger

• Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War

Who was Prince Ivan III?  Why was he significant in Russian history? 

• grand duke of Moscow from 1462 to 1505

• the accomplishment for which Ivan is best known is the consolidation of Muscovite rule

• tripled the territory of his state ended the dominance of the Mongols/Tatars over Russia,

• renovated the Moscow Kremlin

• laid the foundations of the Russian state

Who was Catherine the Great?  Why is she a significant historical figure? 

• German-born empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796

  
  

• led Russia into full participation in the political and cultural life of Europe, carrying on the work begun by Peter the Great

• With her ministers she reorganized the administration and law of the Russian Empire

• extended Russian territory, adding Crimea and much of Poland.

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Where do people tend to live in Russia?  Why do they choose to live there? 

• 80% of whom live in Russia live in the the European part of Russia, and 20% in the Asian part of the country

• Why is this?

• This is because the Asian part of Russia is also known as Siberia, and Siberia has harsh living conditions including:

• permafrost, which makes farming hard, contructing roads hard, and building houses hard

• cold clumate

• endless forests and marshes

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Why are railroads important to Russia’s economy?

Why are railroads important to Russia's economy

• they allow russia to extract their raw materials/natural resources from siberia, and bring them to the city to use and make things out of it to sell

• Russia is huge, and so cars are unpractical

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