Question | Answer |
An area of political uncertainty, constant tension, and frequent changes in political boundaries is often called a | shatter belt |
Ninety-seven percent of Poles are descended from what people group? | Slavs |
The leader of Solidarity who later became the first president of free Poland was | Lech Walesa |
The Nazis killed more than 2.5 million Jews and Poles in the death camp thirty-three miles west of Kraków, Poland, known as | Auschwitz |
Which three countries were the first of the fifteen republics in the Soviet Union to declare independence? | Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia |
What country is the largest of the Baltic States and the home of the Hill of the Crosses? | Lithuania |
Which of the Baltic States is partially composed of fifteen hundred islands? | Estonia |
The dominant mountain system in eastern Europe is the | Carpathians |
The swift and peaceful overthrow of communism in Czechoslovakia was called the | Velvet Revolution |
After Czechoslovakia gained independence, the Czechs and Slovaks agreed to split the country in two in what was known as the | Velvet Divorce |
To give the Czech people a direct stake in the success of the new Czech Republic’s economy, the government began an experiment in | mass privatization |
The tendency of a region made up of many ethnically and religiously diverse minorities to break into small, hostile countries is called | Balkanization |
The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina is | Sarajevo |
Mount Musala is the highest point in which mountain range? | Balkan Mountains |
Whereas most people of the Carpathians are Roman Catholic, the people of Romania are mostly | Eastern Orthodox |
The Danube River flows through a break in the Carpathian Mountains called the | Iron Gate |
Which three countries lie on the eastern plains? | Moldova, Ukraine, and Belarus |
During and after what revolution did Ukraine experience fair elections and a shifted focus toward Western Europe and the EU? | Orange Revolution |
Which peninsula juts out into the Black Sea and is attached to Ukraine by a 2.5-mile-wide isthmus? | Crimean Peninsula |
What city serves as the headquarters for the CIS? | Minsk |
The “land of the Romans” | Romania |
Participated in the Dayton Peace Accords | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Shaped like a boomerang | Croatia |
Capital is Belgrade | Serbia |
Most important industrial and agricultural center in the CIS | Ukraine |
Proclaimed by Enver Hoxha to be the first truly atheistic country | Albania |
Home of Solidarity | Poland |
Largest of the Baltic States; home of the Hill of Crosses | Lithuania |
Middle of the Baltic States; capital is Riga | Latvia |
“White Russia”; capital is Minsk | Belaruse |
Many ancestral roots in Magyars from the east | Hungary |
Capital is Sofia | Bulgaria |
Overthrew the Communist party in the Velvet Revolution | Czech Republic |
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Black Sea | Be able to label on map |
Vistula River | Be able to label on map |