Europe and Russia Unit Test

The oldest and deepest lake in the world is

• Czar Lake

• Lake Caspian

• Aral Sea

• Lake Baikal

What European military leader invaded Russia but was defeated in large part due to the harsh Russian winter?

• Napoleon

• Hitler

• Talin

• Hitler and Napoleon

The term that is used to describe the permanently frozen subsoil in Siberia is

• Northern European Plain

• Permafrost

• Tundrafrost

• Taiga Forest

What year did the Soviet Union fall?

• 1998

• 1990

• 1991

• 1922

What czar defeated the Mongols and began a huge Russian expansion?

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Nicholas II

• Ivan the Great

• Peter the Great

FILL IN THE BLANK: The Russian people's dissatisfaction with the harsh conditions under which they lived helped to bring about the ________________ that ended the rule of czars.

• Bolsheviks

• White Army

• Russian Revolution

• Cold War

Where is Transcaucasia located?

• Between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea

• Between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea

• In the Ural Mountains

• On the Crimean Peninsula

The nation formed by the Communist Party in 1922 was known as

• Russia

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• United State Republics

• Special Soviet Republics

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was called the __________ because it never grew into open warfare.

• USSR Conflict

• Silent War

• Cold War

• Cold Dispute

Because it was a meeting point for people from many areas with many different languages, _______ was referred to by Arab geographers by a name that means "Mountain of Language."

• Russia

• the Baltic Republics

• Transcaucasia

• St. Petersburg