Prisoners of Geography

The Russian Bear is known as Medved, translated as...

• The one who likes war

• The poet of the North

• The great Vastness

• The One who likes Honey

• The Kola of Asia

How many railroads cross the nation of Russia?

• 1

• 2

• 20

• 65

• 73

Who invaded Russia in 1812?

• Germany

• France

• England

• Japan

• China

Who was the first Tsar of Russia?

• Ivan the Terrible

• Peter The Great

• Alexander I

• Nicholas II

• Catherine the Great

Who did Russia invade in 1979

• Ukraine

• Afghanistan

• Japan

• Poland

• Finland

What was the reasoning behind the 1974 invasion according to Vladimir Zelinsky when he stated "wash their boots in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean"

• To maintain a mediterranean fleet

• To open up trade with China

• To Control the Suez Canal

• To develop Relations with India

• For the Russians to have their first warm water port

Afghanistan was identified as ....

• The open door to trade with the east

• The Mountains of Death

• The Graveyard of Empires

• The land of the lost

• THe deserts of dreams

The GIUK gap refers to all of the following EXCEPT

• Greenland

• Iceland

• Ireland

• United Kingdom

• None of these are the correct answer

Crimea was part of Russia for ______ before being granted to the Soviet Republic Ukraine in 195

• 12 years

• 30 years

• 100 years

• 2 centuries

• 500 Hundred years

In response to the Soviets, NATO established Article 5, Which states

• an armed attack on one or more NATO member is an attack against them all

• No Nuclear weapons will be based in Europe

• NATO will continuing policy will be to stop the expansion of the Soviet Union

• No Soviet will be granted a travel Visa to a European Nation