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Ukraine is known as the _____ of Europe for its abundance of black soil
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Breadbasket
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Greek city state that founded the Black Sea colony of Olbia
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Miletus
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Historian who was the first to document the Dnieper River basin
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Herodotus
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Inhabitants of the Pontic Steppe who engaged in trade with the Greek
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Scythians
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Group that supplanted the above, halting trade with the Romans
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Sarmatians
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Eastern branch of Slavs that inhabited Ukraine during the Byzantine Era
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Antes
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Viking group that settled in Ukraine and conquered the Drevlians in 883
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Varangians
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Polity established by the above group, named for the city it was based in
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Kyivan Rus'
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945-972 ruler nicknamed "the Brave" who expanded territory
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Sviatoslav I
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978-1015 ruler nicknamed "the Great" who converted to Christianity in 988
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Volodymyr I
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1019-1054 ruler nicknamed "the Wise" who patronized literary culture
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Yaroslav I
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Mongol khanate that captured Kyiv in 1240
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Golden Horde
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Mongol vassal state led by Danylo of Halych and captured by Poland in 1349
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Galicia-Volhynia
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Mongol vassal state that declared independence as Muscovy in 1476
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Vladimir-Suzdal
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Mongol vassal state, home to Tatars, that later became an Ottoman vassal
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Crimean Khanate
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Christian branch that follows Orthodox teachings and recognizes the Pope
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Eastern Rite
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State established by the Union of Lublin in 1569 that controlled Ukraine
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Poland-Lithuania
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Escaped serfs who acted as border guards for the above
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Cossacks
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Hetman of the above who led a 1648 rebellion from Zaporizhzhia
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Bohdan Khmelnytsky
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1649 treaty that established Ukraine as an independent hetmanate
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Treaty of Zboriv
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1654 treaty that declared the hetmanate's allegiance to Russia
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Treaty of Pereiaslav
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Hetman who defected to Sweden and fought against Russia in 1708
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Ivan Mazepa
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Decisive 1709 battle marking Sweden's defeat and the hetmanate's end
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Battle of Poltava
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Galicia became controlled by this country after the partitions of Poland
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Austria
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Port city home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet that was besieged in 1854
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Sevastopol
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British cavalry force that charged against Russians at the Battle of Balaclava
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Light Brigade
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Year in which uprisings forced Tsar Nicholas II to adopt constitutional reforms
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1905
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Historian and politician who was a proponent of the above event in Ukraine
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Mykhailo Hrushevsky
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Council, founded by the above, that declared Ukrainian independence in 1917
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Central Rada
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Pro-Bolshevik writer and politician who became leader of the Directory
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Volodymyr Vynnychenko
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UNA commander and journalist who led Ukraine from 1918 to 1920
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Symon Petliura
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Bolshevik army, founded by Leon Trotsky, named for a color
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Red Army
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Conservative movement that opposed the above, named for another color
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White Army
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Armed peasant groups that fought for autonomy, named for another color
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Green Army
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Anarchist communist movement, founded by Makhno, known for this color
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Black Army
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Policy that advocated for the indigenization of each Soviet republic
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Korenizatsiia
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City that served as the capital of the Ukraine SSR from 1922 to 1934
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Kharkiv
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Massive constructivist office building completed in the above city in 1928
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Derzhprom
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Soviet agricultural policy in which peasants work on state-owned farms
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Collectivization
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Term for wealthy peasants who were "liquidated as a class" in 1931
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Kulaks
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Hydroelectric dam completed in 1932 as an example of Soviet industrialization
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Dniprohes
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1932-33 man-made famine caused by high food requisitions
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Holodomor
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NYT journalist who won a Pulitzer Price for his fake reports of the famine
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Walter Duranty
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Welsh journalist who revealed the famine and was murdered in China
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Gareth Jones
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Name one of the two Ukrianian intellectuals who committed suicide in 1933
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Skrypnyk / Khvylovy
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1937-38 event in which Soviet political dissidents were murdered
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Great Purge
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Pact signed with Nazi Germany in 1939 that gave Ukraine control over Galicia
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
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Ravine outside Kyiv where 33,000 Jews were massacred in two days
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Babi Yar
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Ethnic group entirely deported from Crimea to Uzbekistan in May 1944
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Crimean Tatars
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UPA leader who fought against the Soviets and the Nazis during WWII
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Stepan Bandera
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Soviet premier who transferred Crimea to the Ukraine SSR in 1954
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Literary critic who published "Internationalism or Russification?" in 1965
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Ivan Dziuba
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NGO founded in 1976 to monitor human rights in Ukraine (dissolved in 1981)
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Ukrainian Helsinki Group
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Nuclear power plant that suffered the explosion of a reactor in April 1986
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Chernobyl
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Movement founded in 1989 that became Ukraine's first opposition party
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Rukh
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Politician who became the first president of Ukraine in 1991
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Leonid Kravchuk
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1994 agreement in which Ukraine promised to give up its nuclear arsenal
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Budapest Memorandum
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Navy fleet partitioned in 1997, in which Ukraine received 18% of the vessels
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Black Sea Fleet
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Georgian editor of "Ukrainska Pravda" who was murdered in 2000
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Georgiy Gongadze
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Scandal in which Ukraine's second president ordered the abduction of the above
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Kuchmagate
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Series of protests against electoral fraud in the 2004 presidential election
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Orange Revolution
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Politician who became Ukraine's third president in 2005 following the above
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Viktor Yushchenko
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Ukraine's fourth president who refused to sign agreement with EU in 2013
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Viktor Yanukovych
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Protests against the above's pro-Russian policies, suppressed by the above
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Euromaidan Protests
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2014 "revolution" that ousted the president and returned to the 2004 Constitution
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Revolution of Dignity
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Region annexed by Russia in February 2014 as a reprisal for the above
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Crimea
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Region which sought to secede under Russian support, leading to war
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Donbas
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2015 series of agreements that ended war in the above region
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Minsk Agreements
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Ukraine's fifth president who believed in "military, language, faith"
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Petro Poroshenko
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Actor in "Servant of the People" who became Ukraine's sixth president in 2019
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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