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Baltic States Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia - They all have ports on the Baltic Sea Soviet Bloc Countries in the Iron Curtain. Soviet Union and its Eastern European puppet governments. puppet governments puppet rulers, like puppets on strings, took orders from the Soviets. Warsaw Location: Poland Info: Largest city in Poland, 2 mill Vistula River Location: Poland Info:Warsaw lies on this river; major artery of shipping through the Central Plains Lech Walesa Head of the "Solidarity" first trade union in the Iron Curtain. Gdansk Poland's largest port (trade center on the Baltice Sea) Galicia Location: Southeastern Poland Info: hills and low mountains, rising into the Carpathia Mountains Krakow Location: Poland Info. 3rd largest city; was the 1st capital of Poland King Casimir built the Wawel Castle Escaped destruction from WWII Auschwitz Location: Poland Info: largest of the Nazi "death camps", a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II Silesia Location: Poland Info: Region drained by the Oder River Oder River The river that forms part of Poland's border with Germany is the Hill of Crosses Location: Lithuania Info: A place where people put up crosses to oppose the Soviet Union's atheistic government Cyrillic an alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages such as Russian