Eastern Europe and Western Russia

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

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Ural Mountains

Front

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

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Carpathian Mountains

Front

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

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Volga River

Front

What was the most common ethnic group in Eastern Europe?

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Slavs

Front

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

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Catherine the Great

Front

What were serfs?

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

Front

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

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True

Front

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

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True

Front

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

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Joseph Stalin

Front

The USSR created which pact with their satellite states?

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Warsaw Pact