Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

Russia and Its Neighbors
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A former industrial site affected by environmental contamination.

The democratic movement in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Russian name for World War II.

A type of economic system that is not controlled by a central authority but rather left to the free and open collaboration and decisions of the participants in the market.

The ideological movement by Russian leaders to promote the active creation of a single Russian empire with one religion and a single language.

The empire founded by Genghis Khan that extended in the 13th and 14th century across Asia into Europe.

A plan initiated in 1953 to open up vast areas of Kazakhstan steppe to grain production.

A sect of Islam distinct from Shia in that its adherents do not believe that the succession of the Prophet Mohammed should be hereditary and follow family bloodlines.

A system of labor camps maintained in the Soviet Union in the early to mid 20th century.

The world's first communist state established in 1917 and encompassed modern day Russia along with a number of countries that surround it. The USSR collapsed in the late 1991.

Political fragments of a state not physically connected to that state and surrounded by the territory of one or other nations.

The tendency for empires to become involved in more foreign interventions that they can afford or manage successfully.

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