Baltic Region
These are the four countries in the Baltic Region.
What are Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia?
These are the three countries in the Carpathians Region.
What are the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary?
These are the five countries in the Western Balkans Region.
What are Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania?
These are the five countries in the Eastern Balkans Region.
What are Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, and Romania?
These are the three countries in the Eastern Plains Region.
What are Moldova, Ukraine, and Belarus?
This key geographic feature stretches across the northern part of Eastern Europe.
What is the Great European Plain?
This is the highest sub range within the Carpathian Mountain System.
What are the Tatra Mountains?
This term was given to the eastern portion of Europe due to the frequent changes in the size, shape, and number of countries there.
What is the “Shatter Belt”?
Located in the Wallachia section of Romania, this break in the Carpathian Mountains has steep rock walls that are 530 feet apart.
What is the Iron Gate?
This group was created by former Soviet republics after the break up of the Soviet Union.
What is the Commonwealth of Independent States?
This Baltic State has more in common with Scandinavia than with its Eastern European neighbors.
What is Estonia?
This term refers to the swift and peaceful overthrow of the communist party in Czechoslovakia in 1989.
What is the Velvet Revolution?
This is a mountainous region that juts down from Europe into the Eastern end of the Mediterranean.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
This eerily named mountain range covers Slovakia and Romania.
What is Transylvania?
This term refers to the Ukrainian elections in 2004 which led to the election of Victor Yushchenko as president.
What is the Orange Revolution?
This large, historic city was leveled by the Nazis in 1944 and later rebuilt using old pictures and written records.
What is Warsaw?
This was a way for the leaders in the newly formed Czech Republic to get property back into the hands of private citizens.
What is “mass privatization”?
This is the main geographic feature within the Balkans region.
What are the Dinaric Alps?
The highest peak in the Balkans Region is located in this country.
What is Bulgaria?
*** For 500 bonus points, name this mountain peak!***
This river - the third-longest in Europe - flows through the heart of Ukraine.
What is the Dnieper River?
This nation started the Eastern European countries movement away from communism in 1989.
What is Poland?
This is the dominant geographic feature within Hungary.
What is the Great Hungarian Plain?
These compromise one of the largest ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe.
What are Gypsies?
This term stands for the Soviet Union and its Eastern European puppet governments between 1917-1991.
What is the Soviet Bloc?
This section of Ukraine - disputed with Russia - sticks out into the Black Sea.
What is the Crimean Peninsula?
*** For 500 bonus points, what is a nickname for this region? ***