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1. Pick up an answer Document
2.  The Cold War
3. Seven Continents
4. Continent Quiz
5. Finish Book Worksheet
6. Study Guide
7. New Students: Folder
The mountain range that some consider to be
the dividing line between Europe and Asia
are the:
Ural Mountains
Comparing Russia to
other Countries.
Time Zones
•  How many time zones does Russia have?
–  A. 2
–  B. 4
–  C. 8
–  D. 11
Answer on next page.
•  11
Geography
•  Lake Baikal = World s deepest freshwater lake,
holds almost 20% of the world s supply of unfrozen
freshwater
Lake Baikal
Communist
•  In a communist country, the government
owns property such as businesses and
farms.
•  It provides its people's healthcare, education
and welfare.
The Cold War
1945-1991
Cold War
•  A state of political tension and military
rivalry between nations that stops short of
full-scale war, especially that which existed
between the United States and Soviet Union
following World War II.
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine in
March 1947 promised
that the USA “would
support free peoples who
are resisting”
communism.
This led to containment –
policy of containing
communism where it is.
Berlin
BerlinWall
Wall
Space Race
•  The USA and the Soviet Union raced as the
world watched to be the first to conquer
space.
1957 Sputnik – first satellite
Score 1 for Soviets!
First man in space
•  Score: USA – 0
•  Soviets - 2
Apollo program
•  USA spent the
60s trying to
catch up to the
Soviets.
Armstrong lands on moon!
• What is the
purpose of a
space
program?
Cold War Movies
Rocky IV
13 Days
Soviet Era
•  After WWII, Stalin set up communist governments
in many neighboring Eastern European countries
•  From late 1940 s to late 1980 s US and USSR
waged a Cold War, in which both nations competed
for world influence without actually fighting each
other
•  Cuban Missile Crisis = hottest point
•  Soviet Union included Russians and people from
many other ethnic groups
•  In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev took power and relaxed
Soviet control
Soviet Era
•  In late 1991, each of the 15 republics made up of
Soviet Union declared independence and the Soviet
Union dissolved
•  Perestroika = Policy brought in by Mikhail
Gorbachev in the late 1980s to restructure the Soviet
Union s economy to allow more economic freedoms
like private ownership and regional or local control
in industry and agriculture.
•  Glasnost
•  Tore down the Berlin Wall
Soviet Era
•  Glasnost: A policy promoted during the latter half of
the 1980s in the Soviet Union by Mikhail
Gorbachev in which government secrecy (which had
characterized the past several decades of Soviet
policy) was discouraged and open discussion and
distribution of information was encouraged. The
term translates to "openness" in Russian.
•  Tore down the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
What does the cartoon above best
describe about the Cold War ?
During the Cold War the United
States and the U.S.S.R.
threatened each other by building
many powerful expensive
weapons
Russia Nuclear Legacy
Chernobyl
• Where in the former Soviet Union
did an accident involving nuclear
energy have long-term negative
environmental and health
consequences?
Chernobyl
Political Tensions
•  When the communist government could no
longer keep the USSR together, the security
of the region s nuclear materials became
uncertain.
Economic Health
Environmental Prospects
Challenges of Change
•  Russia is a democracy today
•  Russian president has more power than US,
can implement plans that are not passed by
legislature
•  Facing challenges of learning how to be a
democracy
•  Ethnic groups want to form their own
country
•  Chechens of Chechnya want their own
nation, have used terrorism to get attention,
Russia has had to use force to keep them in
the country