| A | B |
|---|
| Dardenelles & Bosporus | a strategic waterway connectiing the Black Sea with the Mediterranean Sea |
| Balkan Peninsula | its located in SouthEastern Europe |
| Siberia | located in eastern Russia - its loaded with minerals but very cold |
| taiga | Russian forest land |
| tundra | land permanently frozen - barren - no trees |
| permafrost | land which is permanently frozen 6 inches below the surface |
| Urals | mountains in Russia - they mark Europe from Asia |
| warm-water port | Russia has always wanted one for trade due its northern ports being frozen |
| Kremlin | an area in Moscow, Russia where government buildings are located - surrounded by a red brick wall |
| Northern European Plain | a flat area stretching from France to Russia - used as an invasion route |
| steppes | grassland in the Ukraine/Russia - good for growing crops |
| topography | the land |
| navigable | ships can go through it |
| strategic chokepoint | an area, usually waterway, which if a country couldn't use it - could hurt them economically |
