Eastern Europe and Western Russia

This mountain range forms a portion of the boundary between Europe and Asia.

• Rocky Mountains

• Ural Mountains

• Alps

• Andes

On maps, this younger mountain range looks like an eastward extension of the Alps.

• Rocky Mountains

• Andes Mountains

• Carpathian Mountains

• Himalayas

This is Russia’s most important waterway and the longest river in Europe.

• Danube River

• Rhine River

• Dnieper River

• Volga River

What was the most common ethnic group in Eastern Europe?

• Germans

• Slavs

• Hungarians

• Turks

Which Russian leader expanded Russia’s empire and encouraged the development of education and journalism?

• Vladimir Lenin

• Catherine the Great

• Peter the Great

• Joseph Stalin

What were serfs?

• farm laborers who could be bought and sold along with the land

• Peasants who were bound to the land and owned by the lord of the manor.

• Medieval warriors who fought for the king in exchange for land.

• Craftsmen who provided goods and services to the local community.

A Bosnian-Serb terrorist triggered World War I by assassinating Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914.

• True

• False

A group of revolutionaries called Bolsheviks took control of the Russian government shortly after Czar Nicholas stepped down.

• True

• False

Who used terror and force to transform the Soviet Union into a communist dictatorship

• Vladimir Lenin

• Leon Trotsky

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Joseph Stalin

The USSR created which pact with their satellite states?

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Non-Aggression Pact

• United Nations Charter