Linguistic and Religious Identity
Eastern Europe has been dominated by the influenced of this religion since the Great Schism of 1054
What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
The Balkans are classified as Eastern Europe. Name the nine entities which make them up
What are Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia?
This type of government is governed by the people. Characterized by its encouragement to live by natural rights, have a division of powers, and have free and fair elections.
What is democracy?
The unique situation that Yugoslavia found itself in after WW2
What is emerging as a communist federation independent of the Eastern Soviet Bloc
The Central European countries share this linguistic element in language
What is a latin based alphabet?
The lack of _______ made the region of Eastern Europe prone to democratic backsliding
What is democratic traditions
According to Hungtington, the first of three major democratic waves began in ____, due to the conclusion of _____.
What is 1920 and World War 1?
Major empires that many central European countries were dominated by
What is the German and Austro-Hungarian empires?
Central Europe has been dominated by these two branches of "Western Christianity"
What is Roman-Catholicism and Protestantism
The proportion of Poles who joined the Trade Union "Solidarity" at its peak in the early 1980s
What is ⅓?
In 1960, Huntington’s graph suggests that many countries became independent. What was the major factor which influenced this transition?
What is decolonization?
The central European countries are grouped together due to their historically close proximity to Germany. This allowed them to ____
What is act as a transmitter of Western technologies?
The Eastern European countries share this linguistic element in language
What is a Cyrillic based alphabet?
Soviet Union martyr who betrayed his family to show his loyalty to the state
Who is Pavel Morozov?
Huntington’s third big wave of democracy, beginning in the mid 1970s, consisted of which major entities?
Who are Spain and Portugal?
Geopolitical feature that many of the Central and Eastern European countries share
What is liquid borders?
This Religion had strong influence in the Balkan countries, maintaining the majority in modern day Bosnian and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Albania
What is Islam
What is the name for a district that contained a lot of elected parliament members in the UK and was used in a way to manipulate the election results?
What is a rotten borough?
The leader that died and left a void in Spain which led to the push towards Democracy in the 1970s
What is Fransisco Franco?
Finland was the only country on the pre World War II Soviet border to ______ in post-war times
What is maintain a market economy and democracy