Europe And Russia Flashcards
Moraines
piles of glacial debris
Fjords
Flooded valley inlets
Polder
Reclaimed land, drain lake and farm
Romance Language
French, Spanish, Italian
Germanic Language
Language North of the Alps.
Slavic Language
Third major language group
Fortress Europe
Free movement for citizens across national borders without passport inspections or checks
Schengen Agreement
Goal for gradual reduction of border formalities for travelers moving between EU countries
Countries with ties to Orthodox Church
Cyrillic alphabet (Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia and Serbia)
Irredentism
State policies for reclaiming lost territory and peoples
NATO
U.S, west Germany to south of Turkey
Berlin Blockade
Soviets imposed a blockade on the city, NATO air lifted supplies to the city
Privatization
Transfer to private ownership of firms and industries that were previously owned and operated by the state government
Russian Domain
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia
Kamchatka Wilderness
Untouched environment (China, Canada, Russia have oil rights)
Russian Environment
Poor air quality
Low quality coal
Building industries in concentrated areas
Nuclear threat, dump waste in water
Podzol Soils
Acidic soils that limit farm output
Permafrost
Cold-climate condition, unstable seasonally frozen ground
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Key railroad passage to the Pacific
Gulag Archipelago
Vast collection of political prisons, inmate spent years removed from families and communities
Russification
Soviet policy of resettling Russians into non-Russian portions of the soviet union
Mikrorayans
Large, soviet-era housing projects
Cossacks
Slavic speaking Christians who migrate searching for freedom
Socialist Realism
A style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers heroically challenging nature or struggling against capitalism