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Russia. The Giant of Eastern Europe. Objectives. Give a basic definition of communism. Describe a buffer state. Why might a buffer state be useful? Name and describe the conflict that centered around Russia and the United States in the Twentieth Century. Terms and Places.

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  1. Russia The Giant of Eastern Europe

  2. Objectives • Give a basic definition of communism. • Describe a buffer state. Why might a buffer state be useful? • Name and describe the conflict that centered around Russia and the United States in the Twentieth Century.

  3. Terms and Places Soviet Union or USSR was a single nation of many ethnic groups controlled by Russia. Russia The Soviet Union Warsaw Pact was an alliance of nations controlled by Russia. The Warsaw Pact Cold War was a conflict between the Warsaw Pact and NATO. NATO Buffer state is a weaker nation that lies between unfriendly stronger nations. Russia The Soviet states create a buffer for Russia. S O V I E T U N I O N NATO The Warsaw Pact nations create a buffer for Soviet Union.

  4. Russia is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean To the east lies eastern Europe. It is bordered on the east by the Pacific Ocean. Russia and Kazakhstan share vast plains called steppes. Where are the borders of Russia? Mountains separate Russia from Mongolia and China.

  5. Russia is larger than the United States, including Alaska.

  6. Siberia includes a great lake, called Baikal. Lake Baikal has more water than any other lake. It fresh water is home to seals and other wildlife usually found in salt water.

  7. This region is called “European Russia.” Ural Mountains Ural Mountains Most of the population of Russia is west of the Ural Mountains.

  8. What are the physical features of European Russia? Ural Mountains Great Plains crossed with rivers The most important river in Russia is the Volga. The Volga flows into the Caspian Sea.

  9. White Sea Ural Mountains It also has Great Seas in each corner. Baltic Sea Caspian Sea Black Sea

  10. Terms and Places Soviet Union or USSR was a single nation of many ethnic groups controlled by Russia. Warsaw Pact was an alliance of nations controlled by Russia. Cold War was a conflict between the Warsaw Pact and NATO. Buffer state is a weaker nation that lies between unfriendly stronger nations. Communism is an economic system which bans private property.

  11. Growth of Russian Empire

  12. Criminals and those that disagreed with the czar were often sent to Siberia to live. Russia was ruled for centuries by emperors called czars, including Ivan the Terrible.

  13. Another Czar, Peter the Great, tried to modernize Russia.

  14. Russia Russia is by far the largest country in Eastern Europe. Soviet Russia was controlled by dictators like Lenin and Stalin. For most of the 20th Century, Russia was called the Soviet Union, or the USSR. Lenin Soviet Russia controlled almost all of Eastern Europe from World War II until the 1990s. Stalin

  15. Trans-Siberian Railway

  16. Poland Poland Czech Czech-Slovakia Slovakia Hungary Hungary Romania Romania Bulgaria Bulgaria Compared to 1989, when Russia was the Soviet Union and controlled the Warsaw Pact, Moscow has lost Central Europe outright, arguably most of Eastern Europe, and now is in danger of losing more nations on its very doorstep.

  17. Name the largest city in Eastern Europe. Name the economic system that dominated Russia for most of the Twentieth Century. Moscow Communism Name the longest river in Europe. Briefly describe the system of communism. The Volga Under communism, there is no private property; the government owns everything. Which of the following most challenges Russia’s ability to defend itself? Russia’s north is permanently frozen. Russia’s south is blocked with mountains that are difficult to cross. Russia’s west has no defensible barriers like seas and mountains. The Pacific Coast is swampy and Russians cannot built rail there.

  18. Please read “Imperial Russia to the Soviet Union.” World Studies: Europe and Russia. Pearson-Prentice-Hall, 2005. pgs. 62-69. About 6 ½ pages and “Russia: A Huge Country Takes a New Path.” World Studies: Europe and Russia. Pearson-Prentice-Hall, 2005. pgs. 198. corruption, post-communism, Chechnya, Siberia, Moscow. About 4 ½ - 5 pages

  19. Moscow The Volga The Kremlin The Russian Great Lakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8BJd--JfTQ

  20. Tsar or Czar is the name of the king or emperor of Russia. Russian Federation is an alliance of Eastern Europe controlled by Russia today.

  21. Ural Mountains

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