Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

Russia and Its Neighbors
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Russian name for World War II.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

The targeting and forced removal of ethnic minorities by other groups and/or the nation-state

A military alliance formed in 1949 between Canada, the USA and European countries as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.

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

An arc tectonic activity, including volcanoes and earthquakes, caused by the movement of tectonic plates that surround the Pacific Ocean.

The alphabet used by Slavic languages, such as Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian.

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.

A vast network of pipelines used to transport oil and gas deposits from Russia and central Asia to markets in Europe and China.

Region found between the tundra and steppe regions of northern latitudes that is generally composed of coniferous forests.

Countries that were part of the Soviet Union, some of which maintained some relative autonomy.

An empire that developed from the Roman Empire, centered on Constantinople that lasted from 285 until 1483.

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