Ch 13 Eastern Europe

______ was triggered by the assassination of the heir to Austria-Hungary's throne.

• World War II

• World War I

• Prussia War

• Cold War

Who was known for bringing a communist dictatorship to the Soviet Union once he took power in 1924?

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Vladimir Putin

• Czar Nicolas

• Joseph Stalin

After WWI, the Soviet Union installed _____ governments in most Eastern European countries.

• communist

• democratic

• socialist

• monarch

After the end of the Soviet Union, _______ was a problem in Russia.

• population decline

• sewage systems

• inflation

• poverty

Who tried but failed to stabilize the Russian economy?

• Vladimir Putin

• Joseph Stalin

• Adolf Hitler

• Fancis Ferdinand

What is a vast. level area of grassy land called?

• plateau

• desert

• steppe

• wetland

What was a Russian farm laborer who could be bought and sold with the land in czarist times called?

• serf

• surf

• farm hand

• peasant

What is an area of land that slopes gently downward from the surrounding land called?

• plateau

• basin

• mouth of a river

• shore

Before 1917, the ruler of Russia held the title of ______.

• Czar

• President

• Chancellor

• King

_____ is an area of high elevation.

• Field

• Desert

• Basin

• Upland