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01/14/2013

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When did the Slavs settle in Eastern Europe?
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in 500 AD
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Who were the Southern Slavs?
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Croats, Serbs, Bulgarians
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Who were the Western Slavs?
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Poles, Czechs, Slovaks
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Who were the Eastern Slavs?
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Ukraines, Belorussians, Russians
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Who ruled Kiev in the 800s?
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Swedish vikings
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Who was the first viking ruler?
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Rurik
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Who create a Rus state?
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Oleg
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What was the Rus state that Oleg created named?
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Kievan Rus
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Which Rus ruler converted to Christianity?
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Vladimir 1
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Who overthrew the Mongol rule?
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Ivan the Great (Ivan 3)
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When did Ivan 4 become ruler?
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1533 at the age of 3
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Why was Ivan 4 known as Ivan the Terrible?
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He formed a secret police which killed boyars and massacred villages
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What are the 4 factors separated Russia from Western Europe?
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-Asian influence from the Mongols
-Western civilization reached Russia from Constantinope and Byzantine
-Russia's religion was Eastern Orthodox
-Russia was landlocked
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When did the Romanov monarchy come into power?
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1613
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How many years did the Romanov monarchy rule?
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300
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Czar Peter 1 went to war with Sweden. Who won?
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Russia
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Peter 1 moved the capital of Russia where?
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St. Petersburg
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What was Catherine 2 known as?
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Catherine the Great
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Russia had a successful war against the Turks, from this war Russia gained what?
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Control of the Sea of Azov
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Who did Catherine plot with to divide and conquer Poland?
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Prussia and Austria
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What was the name of the Allies that defeated Napolean?
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The Quadruple Alliance
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What war was about Palestine's religious priveleges?
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Crimean War
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Who established proffesional nursing of the wounded?
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Florence Nightingale
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Who wrote and published the "Communist Manifesto"?
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Karl Marx
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Who issued the Emancipation Edict?
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Czar Alexander 2
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Who went to war with Japan in 1904 and 1905?
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Russia
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What was known as Bloody Sunday?
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During a petition by striking workers, teh czar's troops shot at unarmed citizens
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Who issued the October Manifesto that ended the Revolution of 1905?
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Czar Nicholas 2
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What was the alliance between Russia, Great Britain, and France called?
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the Triple Entente
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What began WW1?
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The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia.
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What are the 2 warring sides of WW1?
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Central Powers, Allied Powers
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What countries were apart of the Central Powers?
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Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
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What countries were apart of the Allied Powers?
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Great Britain, France, Russia, and US (1917)
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How many countries evenually made up the Allied Powers?
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32
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What were millitary advancements in WW1?
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tanks, machine guns, airplanes, zeppelin, poison gas
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On March 15,1917, Nicholas 2 did what that ended the Romonov monarcy?
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abdicated the throne
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Who was V.I. Lenin?
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Leader fo the radical socialists called the Bolsheviks
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Lenin moves the capital of Russia to where?
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Moscow
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What did Lenin rename Russia?
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USSR
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What did Lenin outlaw?
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religion and taught atheism
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When did Stalin sign a secret non-agression treaty with Hitler?
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in August 1939
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What was the beginning of WW2?
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invasion of Poland
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How many soviets died in WW2?
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7 million
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What does NATO stand for?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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The 12 original countries formed NATO to sign a pact against what?
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soviet/communist
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What was the world's first satellite to orbit the earth?
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Sputniki 1
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How did the Soviet Union move further ahead in the "space race"?
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by sending the 1st man into space
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Leader of Cuba agreed to soviet request to construct what?
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Soviet missile sites in Cuba
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When did a US spy plane locate launchin pads with missiles all aimed at the US?
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October 1962
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What did JFK give the Soviet Union?
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uttimatum
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Gorbachev quit and outlawed what?
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communist party
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Who was the president elected by Russia's first public vote?
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Boris Yeltzin
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