8 Unit 5 Review Game- Eastern Europe and Russia

A Large forested area of evergreen trees located in Siberia

• Taiga

• Oblast

• Cyrillic

• Gulag

Divisions of a country similar to states or provinces. Used in Russia

• Taiga

• Oblast

• Cyrillic

• Czars

Writing style used in Russia that uses the Greek Alphabet

• Taiga

• Oblast

• Cyrillic

• Gulag

A Soviet prison camp

• Taiga

• Oblast

• Cyrillic

• Gulag

Name given to the leader of Russia when they had a monarchy

• Taiga

• Oblast

• Cyrillic

• Czar / Czarina

'Permanently' frozen soil.

• Permafrost

• Gulags

• Oblasts

• Tundra

This group took over the country and led a rebellion in Russia

• Bolsheviks

• Czars

• Gulags

• Cyrillics

This connects eastern Russia's Vladivostok to western cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg

• Trans-Siberian Railroad

• Trans-Continental Railroad

• Bolshevik Passage

• Soviet Speedway

Name for the largest country in the world when it was Communist and in control of many other countries during the Cold War..

• Soviet Union / USSR

• Russia

• Russian Federation

• Czardom of Russia

After the fall of the Soviet Union, many Eastern European countries decided to join...

• The European Union (EU)

• The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• United Socialist Soviet Republics