Unit 5 Vocab

The Warsaw Pact is a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.

• True

• False

Glasnost means (Russian: "openness") Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues and it began the democratization of the Soviet Union.

• True

• False

A federation is a group of self-governing states

• True

• False

Permafrost means: No restraints are placed on the authority of the government. Individual rights are few. Includes tyranny, totalitarian and authoritarian

• True

• False

domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region

• Permafrost

• Republic

• Russfication

• Imperialism

central fortress in medieval Russian cities, usually located at a strategic point along a river and separated from the surrounding parts of the city

• Republic

• Tundra

• Kremlin

• Perestroika

From Latin caesar, this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).

• Taiga

• Permafrost

• Czar

• Tundra

Under the new constitution the Federal Assembly became the country's legislature. It consists of the Federation Council (an upper house comprising appointed representatives from each of Russia's administrative divisions) and the State Duma (a 450-member popularly elected lower house).

• Empire

• Cold War

• Warsaw Pact

• Federal Assembly

A form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws.

a region of evergreen, coniferous forest below the arctic and subarctic tundra regions