Final: Central/Eastern Europe Flashcards
Term used to describe the selling of government owned property or business to privately owned
Privatization
Term used to describe mass destruction or killings of Jews by nazis empire
Holocaust
Person who organizers enterprise with considerable risk
Entrepreneur
To break up a political body into smaller ones
Balkanization
Formally add territory
Annex
T/F: Poland has relied mainly on large natural borders to defend itself from outside invasion
False
T/f: while many nations in the Balkan region have broken apart and divided into new nations, they have been able to peacefully coexist with neighboring states
False
T/F: Russian gov it is justified to get involved with the Ukrainian rebel conflict because Russia wants to protect ethnic Russian minorities in the Ukraine
True
Geography of Poland is mostly
Fertile plains
Major religion in Poland
Catholic
1989: Poland had its first free election in a generation. Why?
Collapse of Soviet Union
Most of the nations in the Balkan region today broke away from a nation called
Yugoslavia
The Balkan nation have regularly broken apart into new nations. The newest called:
Kosovo
Nation not conquered by Balkan region
British empire
What nation did the “Border Nations” obtain independence from in 1991?
Soviet Union
Name of Soviet nuclear plant which melted down in 1986 and continues negative effects to people in that region
Chernobyl
Nation that still maintains close ties with Russia?
Belarus
Nation that recently rebelled from Ukrainian gov and was annexed by Russian government?
Crimea
Region currently rebelling from the Ukrainian government and its supported by the Russian government?
Donetsk
Name of group that does not have significant political interest in the Ukrainian conflict
ISIS
Treaty organization made to integrate nations of Europe economically and politically
European Union
