European Physical Geography
This nickname for Europe comes from its unique shape, as Europe is surrounded on 3 sides from water and has numerous pieces of land jutting out into the surrounding seas.
What is the peninsula of peninsulas?
If 'unshortened,' Brexit literally means this.
What is British Exit (From the EU)?
When this country collapsed and split apart in 1991, Ukraine became an independent nation.
What is the Soviet Union?
What is Islam?
During World War II, the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews and millions of other in this horrific event.
What is the Holocaust?
This region of Europe is characterized by high elevation and rugged plateaus. It includes all major mountain ranges of southern Europe.
What is the Alpine Mountains region?
This amount of countries makes up the European Union.
What is 27 countries?
This president of Russia has supported an invasion of Ukraine, and has placed thousands of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
This country mandated masks to combat the coronavirus in 2020, but still banned religious face coverings in public.
What is France?
This is the general term for the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.
What is genocide?
This region includes Scandinavia, Iceland, Spain, and more! It is characterized by its hard, rocky terrain and its fjords in Scandinavia.
What are the Western Uplands?
When leaving the European Union, the UK gave up this right. Now, British people are required to move back to the UK if they were working or living in another EU country.
What are open borders?
In 2014, this peninsula in Ukraine was invaded by Russian forces. It is still internationally recognized as a part of Ukraine, yet Russia is occupying the territory.
What is Crimea?
With the increase in migrants from other continents to Europe, these types of communities are struggling to adapt.
What are small villages around France?
During World War II, the countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan made up this group of enemy countries.
What are the Axis Powers?
This region is large and flat, allowing for dense cities, numerous major rivers, and many crops.
What is the Northern European Plain?
With the EU being one of the world's largest markets, it accounts for 25% of this economic measurement.
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
These were put in place against Russia by the EU and the USA after their invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
What are sanctions?
This migrant camp was, at its peak, home to 10,000 people. With poor conditions, it was shut down in 2016.
What is the Calais Jungle?
Nazism was based on this concept, as evidenced by the scapegoating and targeting of Jews.
What is racism?
This region includes upper France, Southern Germany, Czechia, and some parts of Switzerland and Austria. It is characterized by forests and rolling hills.
What are the Central Uplands?
This is the current British Prime Minister, who supported Brexit?
Who is Boris Johnson?
This southeastern region of Ukraine is actually largely pro-Russian. Although Russia has denied military presence in the region, it claims this Ukrainian region for itself.
What is Donbas?
This war has been ongoing for 10 years in a Middle Eastern country. Its atrocities have caused many migrants to seen refuge in European countries.
What is the Syrian Civil War?
This group targeted Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats in the Bosnian genocide in the 1990s.
Who are the Bosnian Serbs?