BJU cultural geography chapter 12 Eastern Europe – Flashcards
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shatter belt
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a region that is under continual political pressures and if often fragmented by warring factions and invaded or heavily influenced by surrounding rival countries
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Baltic states
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the ladder three countries ( Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia)
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Soviet bloc
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a string of semi-independent countries behind the Iron Curtain. (puppet rulers)
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Vistula River
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the major artery of shipping through the Central Plains in Poland
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Lech Walesa
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the head of the union, demanded changes that helped to bring about the end of communism in Eastern Europe
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Kraków
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the third largest city in Poland, located on the upper Vistula River
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Auschwitz
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the largest of several Nazi "death camps"
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Oder River
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flows west and then north along the German border into the Baltic Sea
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Silesia
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the region drained by the Oder River
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Hill of Crosses
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place where devout Roman Catholics who opposed the Soviet Union's atheistic gov't set up crosses
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Carpathian Mountains
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pick up on the east side of the Danube River, becoming the dominant system in Eastern Europe
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Tatra Mountains
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rises far in the north along the border of Poland and Slovakia (Petra=Jane the Virgin)
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Velvet Revolution
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the swift and peaceful overthrow of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia in 1989
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Velvet Divorce
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the differences caused the two parts of the nation to split peacefully into the nations of Czech Rep. and Slovakia
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Mass privatization
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an experiment where leaders handed out vouchers to private citizens
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Prague
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1.3 million people, known as the City of a Hundred Spires
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Little Alfold
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place on the mountains of Slovakia where there is a wealth of resources( iron ore, copper, lead, and other metals)
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Budapest
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capital of Hungary; lies on the Danube River at the foot of the mountains
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Great Hungarian Plain
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east of the Danube River, dominates the landscape
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Balkan Peninsula
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a mountainous region that juts down from Europe into the eastern end of the Mediterranean
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Balkans
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10 countries of eastern Europe that lie on the peninsula with Greece and Turkey
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Balkanization
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the tendency of such diverse territories to break up into small, hostile nations
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Dinaric Alps
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run down from the border of Italy along the western edge of four countries- Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro
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Gypsies
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one of largest minorities in Europe; call themselves "Roma"
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Karst
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refers to any exotic limestone landscape
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Dalmatia
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the southern wing of Croatia
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Bosniaks
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less than half the people of Bosnia & Herzegovina who are followers of Islam
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Dayton Peace Accords
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the agreement between the Serbs, Bosniaks, and the Croats
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Eastern Orthodoxy
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agrees with Roman Catholicism and traditional Protestants
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Balkan Mountains
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rise in the southeast before crossing into Bulgaria
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Rhodope Mountains
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dominate the countryside of Bulgaria
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Mount Musala
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the highest peak in the Balkans
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Transylvania
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the section that is half of Romania and of the Carpathian Mountain system
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Transylvanian Alps
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the range extends from Slovakia into northern Romania and then curves west across the center of the country
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Iron Gate
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the place where the Danube flows east from the Great Hungarian Plain through a break in the Carpathian Mountains
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Wallachia
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the populous plain below the Iron Gate
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Great European Plain
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stretches over one thousand miles east into Russia
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Transnistria
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region heavy industry one belonged to Ukraine
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Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
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the former republics of the Soviet Union formed this
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"near abroad"
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Russia's attempt to tighten its control over the CIS republics
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Orange Revolution
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event that happened because of the persistence of the Ukraine people where Yushchenko won the election
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Dnieper River
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the third-longest river in Europe which continues south through the heart of Ukraine
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Kiev
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the most populous city in all of Eastern Europe
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Donets Basin
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lies east of the Dnieper
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Crimean Peninsula
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most valuable southern region; juts out into the Black Sea
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Minsk
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capital and largest city of Belarus; headquarters of the CIS
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Pinsk Marshes
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the largest marshland in Europe; extends about 300 mi. on the drainage basin of the Pripyat River
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Chernobyl
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city that had a nuclear accident
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Tirane
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capital of Albania
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Sarajevo
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capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina
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Sofia
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capital of Bulgaria
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Zagreb
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capital of Croatia
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Prague
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capital of Czech Republic
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Tallinn
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capital of Estonia
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Budapest
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capital of Hungary
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Prinstina
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Capital of Kosovo
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Riga
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capital of Latvia
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Vilnius
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capital of Lithuania
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Skopje
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capital of Macedonia
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Chisinau
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capital of Moldova
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Podgorica
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capital of Montenegro
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Warsaw
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capital of Poland
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Bucharest
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capital of Romania
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Belgrade
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capital of Serbia
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Bratislava
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capital of Slovakia
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Ljublijana
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capital of Slovenia
