Physical Geography
A faulty reactor at this nuclear power plant exploded poisoning acres of land.
What is Chernobyl?
This is when the Soviets gained control of parts of the Baltic Republic and Poland.
What is during WWll?
In AD 1000 this group of people moved into the area that today includes Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Who were the Slavs?
The shooting of an heir to the Austrro-Hungarian throne sparked this war.
What is WWl?
This is the poorest country in Europe.
What is Albania?
This "longest river" flows through nine countries and empties into the Black Sea.
What is the Danube?
Poland remained free but the Soviets did push this upon them.
What is communism?
One example of Western influence on the Czech Republic and Slovakia is this.
What is Roman Catholicism?
This European counrty is the only country in the region that is mostly Muslim.
What is Albania?
CIS is based in this city,the capital of Belarus.
What is Minsk?
This location in Eastern Europe is known for its beaches and Mediterranean climate?
What is the Balkan Coast?
The Balkan countries have many different languages because of this.
What is they were settled by many different groups?
This fierce group of invaders trudged into Hungary in the 900's.
Who are the Magyars?
This is the religion that most of the people embraced during the Byzantine rule?
What is Orthodox Christianity?
An effort to remove all members of a group from a country or region is called....
What is ethnic cleansing?
Eastern Europe grows a variety of vegetation because of this.
What is variation in climate?
Name two similarities that Poland and the Baltic Republics share from their histories.
What is being dominated by Soviet Union, forced to accept communism, rejecting communism, and becoming independent? (Any two of these are acceptable)
CIS stands for this.
What is the Commonwealth of independent states?
This is how the violence ended in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
What is countries from around the world stepped in to help?
This is the coldest location in eastern Europe.
What is the Baltic Coast?
These are the names of the regions plains (2) and major mountain ranges (3)?
What are the Northern European Plains,Great Hungarian Plains, the Carpathians, Dinaric Alps, and Balkans?
Estonia, Latvia, Lithania, and Poland are still feeling the effects of Soviet rule because of the Soviets not building up resources like roads, airports, and industry referred to as a weakness in the economic this.
What is infrastructure?
Since the fall of the Soviet the governments the inland Eastern European countries have made changes. This country claims to be republic but is really this.
What is a dictatorship?
These are the three language families that most of the Balkan languages came from.
What are Slavic/Russian, Latin, and Germanic?
The top three city of importance are these.
What is Prague, Kiev, and Budpest?