Soon after WWII and the division of Germany, the US, Canada and a number of European countries formed this military alliance to protect Western Europe from the Soviet Union.
What is NATO?
100
The belief in superiority of one's own ethnic group.
What is Ethnocentrism?
100
Economic and political union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe.
What is the European Union?
100
a time of renewed interest in learning and the arts that lasted from the 14th through the 16th centuries.
What is the Renaissance?
100
These narrow inlets were formed from glacial erosion.
What are Fjords?
200
This region of Europe boasts a Mediterranean Climate, but is home to conflicts between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
What is Southern Europe?
200
The belief that people should be loyal to their nation, the people wit whom they share land, culture and history.
What is nationalism?
200
A common currency proposed by the European Union for its member nations.
What is The Euro?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
Two European classical composers whose last names start with the letter B.
Who are Beethoven and Bach?
200
The peninsula which contains Norway and Sweden.
What is the Scandinavian Peninsula?
300
A movement in Western Europe beginning in 1517 when many Christians broke away from the Catholic Church and started protestant churches.
What is the Reformation?
300
A nation dominated by another country
What is a Satellite Nation?
300
A type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by the demand from consumers. Also known as a demand economy or capitalism.
What is a Market Economy?
300
The European painter who painted ultra realistic portraits.
Who is Rembrandt?
300
The main climate of Europe.
What is Humid Continental?
400
The process of breaking up a region into small, mutually hostile units.
What is Balkanization?
400
The European peninsula that is furthest west and contains Spain and Portugal.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
400
The main economic sectors in Europe.
What are Tertiary and Quaternary?
400
The European painter who is created the impressionist style.
Who is Monet?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The northern extension of the Gulf Stream in the Northern Atlantic ocean which warms the coast and affects the climate of Northwest Europe.
What is The North Atlantic Drift?
500
This European region of former Soviet satellite nations and Yugoslavian republics is considered a cultural crossroads.
What is Eastern Europe?
500
The world's most heavily armed nation
What is Russia?
500
The government owns the means of production in this type of economy.
What is Command Economy?
500
This region of Europe was home to Bach and Mozart and the birthplace of the modern idea of a Nation-State.
What is Western Europe?
500
A hot wind, often dusty or rainy, blowing from North Africa across the Mediterranean Sea to Southern Europe.