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24 Cards in this Set
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Carpathians (1) |
a low mountain range stretching from the Alps to the Black Sea area |
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Balkan Peninsula (1) |
one of the largest peninsulas in Europe, extends into the Mediterranean |
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Danube (1) |
longest river in the region, begins in Germany and flows east across the Great Hungarian Plain |
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Chernobyl (1) |
a nuclear power plant in Ukraine |
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infrastructure (2) |
the set of resources-- like roads, airports-- that a country needs in order to support economic activites |
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Warsaw (2) |
capital of Poland |
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Prauge (3) |
capital of Czech Republic |
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Kiev (3) |
capital of the Ukraine |
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Common Wealth of Independent States (3) |
CIS, an international alliance that meets to discuss issues such as trade and immigration that affect former Soviet republics |
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Budapest (3) |
capital of Hungary |
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ethnic cleansing (4) |
effort to remove all members of a group from a country or region |
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Kiev (2) |
early center of Russia now the capital of Ukraine |
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Cyrillic (2) |
a form of the Greek alphabet |
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czar (2) |
emperor |
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Bolsheviks (2) |
Communist group that seized power during the Russian Revolution |
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gulags (2) |
Soviet labor camps |
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dachas (3) |
Russian country houses |
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St. Petersburg (3) |
city founded by Peter the Great and styled after those of Western Europe |
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smelters (3) |
factories that produce metal ores |
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Trans-Siberian Railroad (3) |
the longest single rail line in the world, running from Moscow to Vladivostok on the east coast |
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Chechnya (3) |
a Russian republic in the Caucasus Mountains, an area of ethnic conflict |
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Tbilisi (4) |
the capital of Georgia |
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Yerevan (4) |
the capital of Armenia |
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Baku (4) |
the capital of Azerbaijan, center of a large oil- refining industry |
