True/False
This term describes the tendency of diverse territories to break up into small, hostile nations is Balkanization
What is True?
This narrow break in the Carpathian Mountains allows the Danube River to flow through.
What is the Iron Gate?
This is the top grain crop in Eastern Europe.
Answer: What is rye?
This group of semi-independent states was ruled by Soviet puppets after World War II.
Answer: What is the Soviet bloc?
The majority religion in Estonia and Czechia is this.
Answer: What is unaffiliated?
Karst refers to topography with limestone caves and is especially prevalent in Slovenia.
What is true?
These are the largest marshlands in Europe.
Answer: What are the Pripet (Pinsk) Marshes?
This crop is turned into cooking oil or used as a nutritional supplement because of its fiber content.
Answer: What is flaxseed?
This was the “year of surprises” in Eastern Europe.
Answer: What is 1989?
Air pollution in Eastern Europe compared to Western Europe is best described this way.
Answer: What is far greater in Eastern Europe?
The Black Sea is rich in oxygen.
What is false?
This is the most important river in Eastern Europe.
Answer: What is the Danube River?
This occurs when the state takes ownership of farms or businesses and puts people there to work the land.
Answer: What is collectivization?
This revolution led Ukraine toward fair elections and closer ties with Western Europe.
Answer: What is the Orange Revolution?
This group migrated to Europe, possibly from India, by the fourteenth century.
Answer: Who are the Romani (Gypsies)?
Eastern Europe lost close to 20 million people in World War II.
What is true?
This is the largest climate type in Eastern Europe.
Answer: What is humid continental?
Eastern Europe’s top economic hindrance for the foreseeable future is this.
Answer: What is the lack a skilled workforce
This was the largest country in the Balkans during the twentieth century.
Answer: What is Yugoslavia?
These two activities are cultural commonalities across Eastern European nations.
Answer: What are drinking and gardening?
Western Europe is more rural than Eastern Europe.
What is false?
This sea is disputed between Russia and Ukraine.
Answer: What is the Sea of Azov?
This country introduced a flat tax which resulted in a robust economy.
Answer: What is Estonia?
This country stands apart from the rest of Eastern Europe because it still has a dictator.
Answer: What is Belarus?
This architectural style is a visible reminder of the Soviet era in Eastern Europe.
Answer: What is Brutalist-style architecture?