Deck 7: Eastern Europe and the Balkans

Question 1

The Narodnaya Volya was organized with the aim of causing as much distress as possible to whom?

A) The Bolsheviks
B) The Romanovs
C) The Boevaya Oranisatsia
D) The Social Democratic Labour Party

Answer 1

The Romanovs

Question 2

Tito declared a one-party Communist state. Although a Communist state in its own right, ______Was not a puppet of the Soviet Union.

A) Bosnia
B) Georgia
C) Yugoslavia
D) Chechnya

Answer 2

Yugoslavia

Question 3

The United Nations defines crimes against humanity as crimes committed in:

A) Civil war.
B) Insurrections.
C) Defense of nationhood.
D) Armed conflict.

Answer 3

Armed conflict.

Question 4

Milosevic was extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in ________ to stand trial for war crimes.

A) The Hague
B) Gavrilo Princip
C) Zagreb
D) New York

Question 5

The Pankisi Gorge is a lawless region of ________ and reputed haven for Islamic fighters.

A) Georgia
B) Ukraine
C) Bosnia and Herzegovina
D) Chechnya

Question 6

The majority of Kosovo Albanians saw UN involvement as the major obstacle for independence from:

A) Serbia.
B) Yugoslavia.
C) Montenegro.
D) Albania.

Question 7

Yugoslavia was established as a nation by the:

A) League of Nations.
B) Soviet Union.
C) NATO in 1980.
D) United Nations.

Question 8

In Rome, Italy, on May 13, 1981, a Turkish nationalist attempted to assassinate:

A) Aldo Moro.
B) Pope Pius X.
C) Pope John Paul II.
D) Ronald Reagan.

Question 9

In the summer of 1998, ________ was openly commenting in press reports about the right-wing nationalist threat to Russia.

A) Boris Yeltsin
B) Vladimir Putin
C) Sergi Kirov
D) Gavrilo Princip

Question 10

In which year did Dictator Slobodan Milosevic come to power?

A) 1984
B) 1989
C) 1979
D) 1982

Question 11

What was the name of the peace agreement signed in 1995 between Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjam and Alija Izetbegovic?

A) The Good Friday Agreement
B) The Washington Peace Accord
C) The Dayton Peace Accord
D) The Treaty of Versailles

Question 12

Yugoslavia is split along ethnic lines into how many republics?

A) Eight
B) Six
C) Five
D) Four

Question 13

During the run off for the Presidential elections in the Ukraine, presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with:

A) Ricin.
B) Dioxin.
C) Cyanide.
D) Amphetamines.

Question 14

Chechen fighters have been involved with affiliated terror groups from Muslim countries trained in:

A) Afghanistan.
B) Tajikistan.
C) Chechnya.
D) Iraq.

Question 15

To ensure support for the U.S. role in attacking terrorism on a worldwide basis, the Bush administration has essentially ignored the issues surrounding the ________ actions in the south Caucasus region.

A) Kosovo
B) Yugoslavian
C) German
D) Russian

Question 16

The KGB is now called the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (FSB). From July 1998 until August 1999, Vladimir Putin was the head of the FSB.

Question 17

Narodnaya Volya (NV) was a Russian Political movement of about 500 members with roots deep in the working classes.

Question 18

The Office of International Criminal Justice estimated that at least 500 organized crime syndicates were operating in the Russian Federation by 1996.

Question 19

Joseph Stalin used labor camps (gulags) for those Russian's who were viewed as contrary to his ideals.

Question 20

The Estonian guerrilla movement fought against the Germans in WWII and returned to Estonia to protect Estonians from the brutal excesses of Stalinism.

Question 21

A post Stalin amnesty in 1955 saw the Estonian guerrilla movement disappear.

Question 22

Patrice Lumumba University is the name of the University where Osama bin Laden received his terrorist training.

Question 23

Following the events of 9-11, Russian President Vladimir Putin was quick to support President Bush's declaration of "war on terror."

Question 24

Chechen fighters have taken their terrorist attacks to the streets of Moscow.

Question 25

Shamil Basayev acting head of the Russian Special Forces has been leading the fight against Chechen fighters in Chechnya.

Question 26

Dzhokhar Dudayev seized power in Chechnya in 1991, after a popular vote elected him as president that November. Dudayev declared independence from the Soviet Union a month before its collapse.

Question 27

The Beslan School attack in 2004 is most likely to have been planned and supported by former Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov.

Question 28

Pankisi Gorge is a restricted Russian military training area.

Question 29

With the death of Marshall Tito in 1980, the old nationalist desires of the republics were reborn. Up until this time, Serbs, Croats and Muslims had lived side by side in relative peaceful coexistence.

Question 30

Slobodan Milosevic won the Serbian Federal Presidential election, in September 2000, by defeating a candidate from the Democratic Opposition in Serbia.