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