World Geography Chapter 6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What is the Hill of Crosses? | a place where Roman Catholics placed crosses apposing athiestic government |
| Klaipeda | the major warm water portion of the Baltic Ocean |
| What is Cyrillic? | a language like Russian |
| Which country is the farthest north in the Baltic states? | Estonia |
| What is the dominant Mts. system in Western Europe? | Carpathian Mts. |
| Carpathian Mts. | picks up on east side of the Danube R.. divides N and S plains |
| Tatra Mts. | highest subrange, rises in the far north along the border of Poland and Slovakia |
| What 3 landlocked countries share parts of the Carpathian Mts. ranges? | Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary |
| Velvet Revolution | over through communist party in Czechoslavakia in 1989, was os swift and peaceful into Czech R. and Slovakia called Velvet Divorce |
| Velvet Divorce | (1993) differences caused the 2 parts of the nation to split peacefully into the nations of the Czech R. |
| Mass Privatization | leaders handed out vouchers to private citizens in an expirament, to get property back |
| Bohemia | the western half of the Czech R. |
| City of 100 Spires | Prague |
| Sudentenland | a valuable mountain region. German inhabited. 1939 Hitler invaded |
| Litttla Alfold | extends into the northwest corner of Hungary. Many crops are grown on this little plain |
| Balkan Peninsula | a Mts. region that juts down from Europe into the eastern end of the Medditeranean |
| Balkanization | the tendency of such diverse territories to break up into small hostile regions |
| Gypsies | one of the largest ethnic minorities in Europe |
| Triglav | the highest peak in Slovenia |
| Karst | exotic limestone landscape |
| Bosniaks | the followers of Islam. Half the population of Serbs and Croats |
| Dayton Peace Accord | an accord to try and stop the fighting between the Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians |
| Slobodan Milosevic | President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and of Yugoslavia 1997 to 2000. A key figure in the ethnic conflicts in the Balkans in the 1900's. |
| Montenegro | a former country bordering on the Adriatic Sea |
| Enver Hotha | ... |
| Kosovo | large south province. gained independence in 1992 |
| Bulgars | settled Bulgaria |
| Mt. Musala | highest peak in Balkans |
| Iron Gate | a break in the Carpathian Mts. |
| Wallachia | the plain below the Iron Gate |
| Canal of Death | 100,00 men died building it |
| Moldovan | the hilly country between Romania and the Ukraine |
| What is the largest country completely inside the continent of Europe? | Ukraine |
| "Orange Revolution" | the countries trying to get away from a communist government |
| Kyiv | most populated city in the Ukraine |
| Odessa | 3rd largest in the Ukraine |
| Chernobyl | largest nuclear reaction in Russia |
| Russian Riviera | when the wealthy Russians went on a vacation |
| "White Russia" | Belarus |
| Minsk | Capital of Belarus |
| Potash | material used for fertalizer |
| Auschwitz | concentration camp that killed over 2.5 million people |
| Concentration Camp | work labor camps |
| Extermination Camp | camps where people were taken to be slaughtered |
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