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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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