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When did the Slavs settle in Eastern Europe? |
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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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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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Who was the first viking ruler? |
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What was the Rus state that Oleg created named? |
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Which Rus ruler converted to Christianity? |
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Who overthrew the Mongol rule? |
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When did Ivan 4 become ruler? |
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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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How many years did the Romanov monarchy rule? |
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Czar Peter 1 went to war with Sweden. Who won? |
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Peter 1 moved the capital of Russia where? |
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What was Catherine 2 known as? |
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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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What was the name of the Allies that defeated Napolean? |
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What war was about Palestine's religious priveleges? |
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Who established proffesional nursing of the wounded? |
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Who wrote and published the "Communist Manifesto"? |
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Who issued the Emancipation Edict? |
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Who went to war with Japan in 1904 and 1905? |
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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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What was the alliance between Russia, Great Britain, and France called? |
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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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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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Leader fo the radical socialists called the Bolsheviks |
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Lenin moves the capital of Russia to where? |
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What did Lenin rename Russia? |
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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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What was the beginning of WW2? |
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How many soviets died in WW2? |
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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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What was the world's first satellite to orbit the earth? |
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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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What did JFK give the Soviet Union? |
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Gorbachev quit and outlawed what? |
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Who was the president elected by Russia's first public vote? |
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