western europe Flashcards
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shatter belt
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a region that is under continual political pressures and is often fragmented by warring internal factions and heavily influenced by surrounding rival countries
2
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karst topography
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the term for topography produced by the erosion and collapse of solution caves in thick strata of chemical sedimentary rocks.
3
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Soviet bloc
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a string of semi independent countries behind the iron curtain ruled by puppet government taking their orders from Moscow.
4
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collectivization
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when the state takes ownership of the farms and puts people there to work the people there.
5
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balkanization
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tendency of ethnically and religiously diverse territories to break up into small, hostile nations.
6
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ethnic cleansing
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the mass killing or expulsion of an ethnic or religious group against
