Unit 6 Vocabulary

Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. He focused on reforming the communist practices that ran the Soviet Union, and one of his policies focused on a new "openness" in politics, social issues, and media. What is the name of this policy?

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

• Russification

• Privatization

The leader of Imperial Russia (from 1533 to 1917) was known as the

Which of the following best describes privatization?

• The practice of hiding a country's internal affairs from other countries

• When the United States placed an embargo on all goods created in the Soviet Union during the Cold War

• A change to private ownership of state-owned companies and industries

• Changing from a capitalist economy to a privately-owned communist economy

The Steppe is a region of wide, grassy ________ in Central Asia.

Which of the following were two aspects of Russification?

• People had to speak Russian and become Muslim

• People had to speak Russian and become Christian

• People had to become Christian and people in Siberia had to move west of the Ural Mountains

• People had to become Muslim and people in Siberia had to move west of the Ural Mountains

The extreme variation of temperature and very little precipitation on areas within the interior portion of a landmass is known as

• Climate

• Latitude

• Steppe

• Continentality

Which of the following is an example of a satellite state?

• Eastern European countries controlled by the Soviet Union

• Russian colonies in western Africa

• Islands in the Arctic Ocean governed by Russia

• Small countries in the Caucasus stuck between large, powerful countries

What do you call material that has been contaminated by residue from the generation of nuclear energy, most often from testing of nuclear weapons?

Where are you most likely to find permafrost?

• The Steppe

• Surrounding the Aral Sea

• Siberia

• The Caucasus Mountains

Goods that are illegal or scarce can be secretly sold for extremely high prices on the