Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

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

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

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.

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

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

A former industrial site affected by environmental contamination.

The democratic movement in Ukraine after the collapse of 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.

A significant and highly influential ancient trade route that linked Europe with China.

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

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

A very rich business person who might also maintain a great deal of political authority. Oligarchs proliferated in Russia after the fall of the USSR as many previously state owned assets were acquired below market value.

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