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Chapter 15
Countries of Eastern Europe
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History
5th Grade
02/22/2013

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Slovakia
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Bratislava
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Romania
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Bucharest
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Hungary
Definition
Budapest
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Gorbachev
Definition
Communist leader who began the programs of Glasnost and Perestroika
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Krushchev
Definition
Communist leader who threatened to "bury" the United States
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atheists
Definition
Communists and other people who believe there is no God
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Baltic States
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Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
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Ukraine
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Kiev
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Russia
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Moscow
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Bulgaria
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Sofia
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Poland
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Warsaw
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Tchaikovsky
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a famous Russian composer
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Stalin
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brutal Soviet dictator responsible for the Great Purge
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Napoleon
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the Frech emperor who tried to conquer Russia but failed
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Ivan IV
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the first czar
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Marx
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the founder of Communism
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the United States
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the largest financial contributor to the United Nations
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Lech Walesa
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the leader of Solidarity in Poland
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Lenin
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the leader of the first Communist state
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Boris Yeltsin
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the most powerful man in Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed
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United Nations
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the organization that was formed after World War II to promote world peace
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Ukraine
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the second-largest European country after Russia
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Commnism
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the system of government that says there is no God and allows people no freedom
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Lake Baikal
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the world's deepest freshwater lake
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Russia
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the world's largest country
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czars
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what Russian rulers were once called
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