Physical Geography
What is the largest marshland in Europe?
Pinsk Marshes
What former nation based in Russia controlled much of Eastern Europe in the 1900s?
The USSR
What ethnic group makes up the majority of the people in Eastern Europe?
The Slavs/Slavic People
What physical region in Eastern Europe is known as an "invasion highway?"
The Great European Plain
What was the intentional famine orchestrated by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin that killed millions of his own citizens?
Holodomor
What is the term for the mass killing or expulsion of a people group?
Ethnic Cleansing
What is the term for the topography produced by the erosion and collapse of solution caves in thick strata of chemical sedimentary rocks?
Karst Topography
What was the name of the protest movement that called for another election after the fraudulent first result in the 2004 presidential election in Ukraine?
The Orange Revolution
What are the two major commonalities between those who live in the Northern and Southern regions of Eastern Europe?
Drinking and Gardening
Name 3 of the major natural resources produced in Eastern Europe.
Rye, Barley, Flaxseed, Wheat
The process in which the government owns, manages, and controls all private industry.
Collectivization
What reasons may Eastern European nations not want to accept immigrants and refugees from Muslim nations?
Already civil unrest between people groups, no money to support them
What river flows west to east from Germany across Central and Eastern Europe and empties out into the Black Sea? Extra 100 points if you tell me why its important
Danube River.
Who won the official 2004 presidential election in Ukraine?
Viktor Yushchenko
Communism has had a lasting impact on what parts of the culture? (name at least 2)
Economies, governments, borders, architecture, social interactions, the environment