Unit 6: Russia and the Eurasian Republics

A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Airlift

in a limited government led by the citizens, everyone, including all authority figures, must obey the laws

• Limited government

• unlimited government

• separation of powers

• checks and balances

conditions needed to create goods and services in an economy, generally land, labor, and capital

• gross income

• factors of production

• spheres of influence

• natural resources

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Cold War

• Proxy War

a political unit where large numbers of people of different ethnicities living in different areas are controlled by one ruler

• Empire

• Federation

• colony

• Republic

union of self-governing states

• empire

• republic

• federation

• referendum

form of government in which people elect representatives to legislate

• empire

• Republic

• democracy

• federation

in an unlimited government, control is placed solely with the ruler and his/her appointees, and there are no limits imposed on his/her authority

• unlimited government

• limited government

• absolute monarchy

• federalism

economy in which the government controls all production and distribution of goods and services

• unlimited government

• Communist economy

• Republic

• Command Economy

a group that shares common cultural traits, such as language

• Empire

• Republic

• Limited Government

• Ethnicity