Unit 6 Test Review Game-Eastern Europe and Russia

When a monarch renounces or gives up their throne.

• Abdicate

• USSR

• Northern European Plains

• Cold War

• Buffer Zone

A city in modern Ukraine that was home to a USSR nuclear energy plant. This city experienced an explosion that would send radioactive dust across Europe.

• Chernobyl

• Northern European Plains

• Buffer Zone

• USSR

• Cold War

A thick layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year.

• Permafrost

• USSR

• Northern European Plains

• Cold War

• Buffer Zone

An imaginary barrier that divided the ideologies of Western Europe from that of Eastern Europe. (Democracy vs. Communism)

• Iron Curtain

• Northern European Plains

• Buffer Zone

• Cold War

• USSR

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the name given to former Russia by the communist party (Bolsheviks) after the Russian Revolution.

• USSR

• Iron Curtain

• Northern European Plains

• Cold War

• Buffer Zone

A Rail Road in the southern part of Russia that extends from Moscow to Vladivostok (Siberia). This RR made it easier to transport people and resources.

• Buffer Zone

• Northern European Plains

• Pacific Railway

• Trans-Siberian Railway

• Trans-continental Railway

The dominant religion in modern Russia.

• Orthodox Christianity

• Northern European Plains

• USSR

• Cold War

• Buffer Zone

A physical geographic feature that is responsible for the majority of food produced in Eastern Europe and Russia.

• Iron Curtain

• Northern European Plains

• Buffer Zone

• Cold War

• USSR

A mountainous peninsula that is home to many different ethnic groups.

• Northern European Plains

• USSR

• The Balkans

• Buffer Zone

• Cold War

A process started by Peter the Great that aimed to make ancient Russia more like their Western European neighbors.

• Westernization

• Northern European Plains

• Buffer Zone

• Cold War

• USSR