Wars/ Revolutions
After Czechoslovakia gained independence, the Czechs and Slovaks agreed to split the country in two
What is the Velvet Divorce
Term given to Eastern Europe because of its frequent changes in size, shape, and number of countries
What is the shatter belt?
Head of first trade union in Poland and later became the first President of Poland
Who is Lech Walesa?
Means "black mountain"
What is Montenegro?
What are Gypsies?
The swift and powerful overthrow of communism in Czechoslovakia
What is the Velvet Revolution?
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
What are the Baltic States?
Part of Romania that juts into the Black Sea
What is the Crimean Peninsula?
Country that has some of the best farmland in Europe because of the Danube and Tisza Rivers
What is Hungary?
makes up 97% of Poland's population
Ukraine experienced fair elections and a shifted focus toward Western Europe during and after this time
What is the Orange Revolution?
Tendency of a region made up of many ethnically and religiously diverse minorities to break into small, hostile countries
What is Balkanization?
Region in Romania that Europeans believe to be a place of mystery and danger
What is Transylvania?
First truly atheistic country
What is Albania?
Nazis deemed them "undesirable" and killed hundreds of thousands of them during the Holocaust
What are Gypsies?
An exotic limestone landscape
What is karst?
Region in southern Croatia that is popular for its views of the Dinaric Alps and its beach resorts
Largest of the Baltic States and home of the Hill of Crosses
What is Lithuania?
Muslims who live in the Balkans
What are Bosniaks?
group of semi-independent states ruled by puppets of the Soviet Union after World War II
What is the Soviet Bloc?
Dominant mountain system in eastern Europe
What is Carpathian?
Home of Solidarity
What is Poland?