Chapter 6 Section Quizzes and Chapter Review

Question 1

Why is Eastern Europe considered a shatter belt?

Answer 1

The size shape and number of the countries are changing constantly.

Question 2

What are Poland’s 2 most important rivers?

Answer 2

The Vistula and Oder rivers.

Question 3

What two regions of Poland lie in the hills along the southern mountains?

Answer 3

Silesia and Galicia.

Question 4

The Baltic states are?

Answer 4

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Question 5

Which Baltic State is strongly Roman Catholic?

Answer 5

Lithuania.

Question 6

What are two largest islands of Estonia?

Answer 6

Saaremaa and Hiiumaa.

Question 7

What mountain system extends from the Alps across

Eastern Europe?

Answer 7

Carpathian Mountains

Question 8

What people group settled the Czech Republic and Slovakia?

Answer 8

The Czechs and Slovaks

Question 9

How is the Czech Republic and Slovakia similar?

Answer 9

Both people groups come from the western Slavs

Question 10

How are the Czech Republic and Slovakia different?

Answer 10

They differed over the nature and pace of economic reforms

Question 11

Important plain that covers Hungary and eastern Europe

Answer 11

The Great Hungarian Plain

Question 12

How is Hungary different from all its neighbors?

Answer 12

They are descendants of Magyar tribes and they speak a Uralic language

Question 13

Mountain range that rus along the Adriatic coast in the Balkans

Answer 13

Dinaric Alps

Question 14

Why is Slovenia the most prosperous country in Eastern Europe?

Answer 14

It has a free market economy

Question 15

Country with the only Muslim majority in Europe?

Answer 15

Bosnia

Question 16

How does the Un refer to Macedonia?

Answer 16

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Maceidonia

Question 17

How is Romania unique among the Eastern Balkans?

Answer 17

Their language is the only one in Eastern Europe that developed from Latin

Question 18

What has hindered Romania’s economy and development since it’s independence in 1989?

Answer 18

The effects of poor communist stewardship

Question 19

To what country does Moldova have the closest cultural ties?

Answer 19

Romania

Question 20

Why is central Ukraine so valuable?

Answer 20

It is their agricultural region

Question 21

What disputed region is in the Ukraine?

Answer 21

Crimea

Question 22

What is happening in the Ukraine right now?

Answer 22

Ukraine is having a dispute over Crimea with Russia

Question 23

shatter belt

Answer 23

A region that the counties are constantly changing in size and shape

Question 24

Soviet bloc

Answer 24

Russia made Eastern European puppet rulers

Question 25

Cyrillic

Answer 25

A modified Greek alphabet used for Slavic languages such as Russian

Question 26

mass privatization

Answer 26

The Czech Republic handed out vouchers to private citizens to get property back into the hands of the people

Question 27

Balkanization

Answer 27

To break up into small hostile nations

Question 28

karst

Answer 28

An area of water carved limestone formations

Question 29

Bosniaks

Answer 29

Followers of Islam

Question 30

“near abroad”

Answer 30

CIS republics

Question 31

Lech Walesa

Answer 31

Lech Walesa the head of the Solidarity the first trade union in the iron curtain demanded changes that helped to bring about the end of communism in Eastern Europe

Question 32

Dayton Peace Accords

Answer 32

In 1995 US president Bill Clinton invited the warring leaders of the Serbs Bosniaks and Croats to write a peace agreement

Question 33

What 2 Christian religions are most common in Eastern Europe?

Answer 33

Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy

Question 34

Orange Revolution

Answer 34

It was in Ukraine and the citizens wanted freedom

Question 35

Solidarity

Answer 35

The hard working shipbuilders of Gdansk formed the first trade union in the iron curtain

Question 36

Chernobyl

Answer 36

In Ukraine a nuclear power plant blue up and spread radiation over Europe

Question 37

Velvet Divorce

Answer 37

The Czech Republic and Slovakia split in 1993