Lesson 1
A low mountain range stretching from the Alps to the Black Sea area?
What are the Carpathians?
Set of resources like roads, airports, and factories- that a country needs to support economic activities?
What is Infrastructure?
Capital of the Czech Republic?
What is Prague?
The belief that one's own culture or ethnic group is superior?
Ethnocentrism
One of the largest peninsulas in Europe; it extends into the Mediterranean.
What are the Balkan Peninsulas?
Capital of Poland?
What is Warsaw
An international alliance that meets to discuss issues such as trade and immigration that affect former Soviet republics?
Commonwealth of Independent States
Effort to remove all members of a group from a country or region?
Ethnic cleansing
The nuclear power plant in Ukraine?
What is Chernobyl?
What are the two obvious differences between the cultures of the Baltic countries?
What are languages and religions?
What country formed after WW1?
Czechoslovakia
What was one of the causes of WW1?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.
What has the high activity on the Danube River led to?
What is heavy pollution?
How are Poland and Baltic countries working to rebuild?
Replacing the old and outdated factories?
What has been a significant challenge for countries since the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Economic Development
What are the three major languages of the Balkan people?
Russian, Latin, and German.
What were the effects of the radiation from Chernobyl
Poisoned soil or ruined land
Why are people drawn to Polish cities?
Fascinating cities
Why do people visit Eastern Europe?
Architectural and cultural sites.
What was so bad in Yugoslavia that other countries had to step in to help stop it?
Violence.
What does the land on the Balkan coast have?
Shrubs and hearty trees?