World Geography Chapter 6 "Eastern Europe"

The mountainous country of _______ lies in the west facing the Adriatic Sea

Albania

Macedonia was the ancient home of __________ ___ _____

Alexander the Great

The Czech Republic was formally part of Czechoslovakia. The ______ created Czechoslovakia after World War 1

Allies

_________ was the largest of several Nazi "death camps" where the Nazis killed over 2.5 million Jews and Poles

Auschwitz

Nine countries of Eastern Europe, called the Balkans lie on the ______ Peninsula. They share the peninsula with Greece and Turkey

Balkan

The rest of Serbia is mountainous, The Dinaric Alps cross into the southwest, and the ______ Mountains rise in the southeast before crossing into Bulgaria

Balkan

The tendency of diverse territories breaking up into small, hostile nations is called ______________

Balkanization

________, the capital since 1402, lies near the edge of the Pannonian Plains where the Sava River joins the Danube

Belgrade

The western half of the Czech Republic, called _______, is a large basin ringed by highlands

Bohemia

The capital of Hungary, ________, lies on the Danube River at the foot of the mountains. With more than 2 million people, it is the ______-largest city in Eastern Europe

Budapest, fourth

Slovakia lies in the heart of the __________ Mountains

Carpathian

What three landlocked nations share parts of the Carpathians

Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary

The Carpathian Mountains pick up on the east side of the _______ River, becoming the dominant system in eastern Europe

Danube

The ______ Alps run down from the border of Italy along the western edge of four countries -- Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro

Dinaric

______ is the country's main port

Durres

The Balkan Peninsula is a mountainous region that juts down from ______ into the eastern end of the Mediterranean

Europe

The eastern wing of Croatia lies on the _________ Plains, part of the Great Hungarian Plain

Pannonia

The agricultural heart of Serbia is the northern plains or _________ Plains. This fertile farmland is part of the Great Hungarian Plain

Pannonian

_________ is the capital of Montenegro

Podgorica

Which four nations in Eastern Europe have ports on the Baltic Sea?

Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

The capital of the Czech Republic, ______, has over one million people

Prague

In the 18th century Poland was caught between three growing empires -- _______, _______, and ______. In a series of three agreements the foreign emperors agreed to divide up Poland's territories. In 1795 Poland ceased to exist as an independent country

Prussia, Austria, and Russia

____ is the capital and largest city of Latvia

Riga

Although it doesn't share any of the Dinaric Alps or a border with Greece, ________ is still on the Balkan Peninsula

Romanina

Romania means "land of the _______" It was the last province to be captured by the Roman Empire

Romans

____ is Bulgaria's major port on the Danube

Ruse

The capital if the country, ________, lies almost between Bosnia and Herzegovina in the south

Sarajevo

In 2003, the country was divided into a union of two semi-independent states, and they took the name ______ and __________

Serbia and Montenegro

The capital of Macedonia, ______, lies in the north

Skopje

Bratislava, the capital of ________, lies within the Little Alfold, just downstream from Vienna on the Danube River

Slovakia

During the Cold War what three countries along with Macedonia were part of the Communist country of Yugoslavia

Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia

_____, Bulgaria's capital, lies on this range on a mountain tributary that flows into the Danube

Sofia

The hardworking ship builders of Gdansk formed __________, the first trade union in the Iron Curtain

Solidarity

Poland become part of the ______ ____ a string of semi-independent countries in the Iron Curtain. Puppet rulers, like puppets on strings, took orders from the Soviets

Soviet bloc

The Bohemian Basin is ringed by the _______ Mountains on the northern border with Poland and the Bohemian Mountains on the western boundary with Germany

Sudeten

The major port and capital city, ________ lies on the northern coast

Tallinn

Unlike the city dwellers crammed into the capital, ______, most Albanians live on small farms

Tirane

When Macedonia declared independence after the breakup of Yugoslavia, ______ refused to let the European Union formally recognize its independence

Greece

While Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, devout Roman Catholics opposed the atheistic government by setting up crosses on a place called the ____ __ _______

Hill of Crosses

East of the Danube, the Great _________ Plain, takes dominance. This spreads through many other countries in Easter Europe

Hungarian

Serbia and Montenegro followed the _____________ path under the leadership of Slobodan Milosevic

authoritarian

Hungary is part of a ______ within a sweeping curve in the Carpathian Mountains

basin

Why is Eastern Europe called the "shatter belt"?

because the size, shape and number of countries have shifted back and forth

Croatia is shaped like a _________

boomerang

Krakow was the first _______ of Poland

capital

With a population of over 2 million, Warsaw, is Poland's _______ and largest city

capital

The _______ portions of Bosnia is dominated by the forested Dinaric Alps.

central

The Masurian Lakeland lies ____ of the Vistula, on the coastal plains, and the Pomeranian Lakeland lies in the ____

east,west

Today Slovenia has the ________ per capita GPD in Eastern Europe

highest

Slovenia was the first Yugoslavian republic to demand ____________

independence

The Baltic States were the first of the fifteen republics in the Soviet Union the declare _____________.

independence

Lithuania is the _________ of the Baltic States, and the farthest from Russia's capital

largest

Near the mouth of the Vistula is Gdansk, Poland's ________ ____

largest port

Latvia is the ______ Baltic State

middle

The eastern Balkans are dominated by __________

mountains

Macedonia is almost completely covered by _________ (80%)

mountains (80% is covered by mountains)

Bosnia consists of the ________ and central portions of the country

northern

Northern Bulgaria is a fertile valley along the Danube River. The river forms most of Bulgaria's ________ border

northern

The hilly _________ portion of the country is pastureland in the northeast and forests in the northwest

northern

Estonia is the ____________ of the Baltic States

northernmost

Lithuania has the _______ documented history of the Baltic States

oldest

Slovenia has a democratic ________ form of government

republic

Hungary is divided by the Danube River, Europe's ______-largest river

second

Belgrade has been conquered and destroyed more than 30 times. With more than 1.5 million people, it is the ______-_______ city in the Balkans

second-largest

The Daugava River flows through Latvia, dividing the north and east from the _____ and ____

south and west

Herzegovina consists of the ________ portion of the country. (the Dinaric Alps continue in this of the country)

southern

Slobodan Milosevic promised the Western powers that he would stay out of surrounding civil wars, while he was secretly _________ the Serb minorities

supplying

Albanians are divided into two groups that speak different dialects: the ____ in the north and the _____ in the south

the Gegs, the Tosks

Krakow the _____ largest city in Poland is located on the Vistula River

third

After the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, ___ of the six regions, Serbia and Montenegro, united and retained the name Yugoslavia

two

The Great Poland Lakeland is located ____ of Warsaw

west

The Dinaric Alps extend into northern Albania, where they are called the _____ ________ ____

North Albanian Alps

Bulgars account for ___% of the population of Bulgaria and Turks account for another 9%

84%

Forests cover more than _/_ of Croatia

1/3

Over 50% of Lithuania is cultivated land and almost _/_ is forest

1/3

Latvia has over __,____ rivers (but few are very long), and over _,____ lakes

12,000; 3,000

Estonia's __,___ islands make up 10% of its land area

15,000

Poland joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in ____ and the European Union (EU) in ____

1999, 2004

The Czech Republic joined NATO in _____ and the EU in _____

1999, 2004

Latvia became a member of NATO and the EU in ____

2004

Lithuania joined NATO and the EU in ____

2004

Romania joined NATO in ____ and joined the EU in ____

2004, 2007

In 1933 , on the eve of Hitler's rise to power in Germany, the Jewish population in Poland was about _____ _______ (the largest population of Jews in Europe) By 1955, this number has decreased to about __,____!

3 million, 45,000

The east part of the Czech Republic is Moravia. about ___% of the Czech Republic is Moravian

4%

About __% of Lithuania's population is Roman Catholic

80%

The Danube River flows east from the Great Hungarian Plain through a break in the Carpathian Mountains called the _____ _____.

Iron Gate

________ is Lithuania's major warm-water port on the Baltic Sea

Klaipeda

_____ is the only commercial seaport on Slovenia's tiny Adriatic coastline

Koper

Romania's language is the only one in Eastern Europe that developed from _____

Latin

What three countries are known as the Baltic States?

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

In the southwest of Slovakia, crops are grown on a plain called the ______ ______

Little Alfold

70% of Albania's population is ______, the only Muslim majority in any European nation

Muslim

Macedonia experienced internal fighting in 2001. An ethnic-Albanian group calling itself the __________ ___________ _____ (NLA) attempted to over throw the Macedonian government. A peace treaty was signed later in 2001 that ended the NLA but didn't eliminate tensions between the ethnic-Albanians and ethnic-Macedonians

National Liberation Army

The _____ leveled the city in 1944 during the Sixty-three-day Warsaw Uprising, killing over a quarter-million of the city's civilization. Though the Nazis rebuild the quaint buildings in Warsaw, the rest of the city has a ______ appearance

Nazis, modern

Nearly half of Romania is a section of the Carpathian Mountains system called ____________

Transylvania

Bulgaria's major port on the Black Sea, _____, lies on the northern portion of the country

Varna

But Czechoslovakia fell to Hitler's armies in 1939 and then the Soviets in 1945. The overthrow of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia, in 1989, was so swift and peaceful that it was called the _______ ____________

Velvet Revolution

Warsaw lies on the _______ River, the major artery of shipping through the Central Plains

Vistula River

After World War 1, President _______ ______ of the United States insisted that the Poles be given their own nation again

Woodrow Wilson

______, the capital and largest city of Croatia, lies on the Sava River

Zagreb