Chapter 6 Lesson 2 History of Eastern Europe and Russia Review

What group controlled Russia for 250 years starting in the late 1200s?

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

Who took control of the Russian government shortly after Czar Nicholas stepped down?

• The Bolsheviks

• The Mensheviks

• The Romanovs

• The Soviets

The Bolsheviks wanted Russia to return to an economic system in which _______ worked for royals and nobles.

• peasants

• merchants

• soldiers

• artisans

Who was the first premier of the Soviet Union?

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Lenin

• Leon Trotsky

• Nikita Khrushchev

Joseph Stalin transformed the Soviet Union into a _______ dictatorship.

• democratic

• communist

• capitalist

• socialist

The Soviet Union started World War II by invading which country in 1941?

• Germany

• Poland

• France

• Italy

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union controlled all of the following countries except:

• Czechoslovakia

• Poland

• Romania

• France

Which event marked the beginning of the Cold War between the USSR and the United States?

• The creation of the Warsaw Pact

• The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The United States learning about Soviet missiles in Cuba

• The Cold War begins between the USSR and the United States.

What did the Soviet Union create that involved a military alliance?

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Solidarity

• Glasnost