Tigers
The sense of what characteristics make a people a nation
What is national identity?
This country is about the size of South Carolina, USA
What is the Czech Republic?
This river is crucial for much of Eastern Europe
What is the Danube River?
Most people in Romania practice this faith
What is Eastern Orthodox?
This country was known for decades as "Europe's hermit."
What is Albania?
Although the government tried to stamp out religion, this continued to play an important role in the everyday lives of people:
What is the Catholic Church?
This revolution occurred without any bloodshed
What is the velvet revolution?
About 90% of Hungarians are descended from this group, who settled in the area in the late 800s
Who are the Magyars?
This is the effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout an economy
What is the multiplier effect?
Because of isolation, this country was once one of the poorest nations in Europe
What is Albania?
Because of its fertile farm region, Hungary is called this:
What is "the breadbasket of Europe"? (GNP)
The result of the Baltic states being annexed by the Soviet Union
What is formally added to the Soviet Union?
The result of different ethnic groups not getting along
What is the break up of Yugoslavia?
When a country sells government-owned businesses to private companies
What is privatization?
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are known as this:
What are the Baltic Sea nations?
A person who starts and builds a business
What is an entrepreneur?
Murder of Jews, Poles, and other people by the Nazis during WWII is called
What is the Holocaust?
This term means "to break up into small, mutually hostile political units."
What is balkanize?
This country is known as the garden state of Eastern Europe
What is Bulgaria?
The location of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion
What is Ukraine?
An area where a minority group has to live
What is a ghetto?
The eastern region of the Czech Republic is known as this:
What is Moravia?
Government-owned farms are called
What are collective farms?
This is a Polish labor union that fought for reform:
What is Solidarity?
The word that describes how Czechoslovakia split into two countries:
What is peacefully?