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42 Cards in this Set
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Countries of Eastern Europe
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Russia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Belaruse, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia
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USSR (Iron Curtain) Country break ups
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Soviet Union ceases to exist. Yugoslavia falls apart completely. Czechoslovakia dissolves, Czech Republic industrialized.
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1815 3 major empires
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Prussia, Austria, Ottoman
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3 Baltic States
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Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
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Yugoslavia became...
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Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovia, Macedonia, Serbia (Kosovo), Montenegro
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Characteristics of E. Europe
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Great cultural/ethnic diversity, animosity/conflict, political instability, break ups, boundary changes, name changes, etc.
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Ethnic Conflicts in E. Europe
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Hungarians in Romania - Transylvania
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Shatter Belt
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An area of frequent political divisions and boundry changes (splintering and fracturing) due to its internal variety and conflict as well as pressures from the outside
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Buffer Zone
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A group of weak countries separating two powerful fources
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Balkanization
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Fragmentation of a region into smaller, often hostile political units
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Ethnic Cleansing
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The forcible ouster of entire populations from their homelands by a stronger power bend on taking their territory
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Purpose of NATO
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"Keep the Americans in, Russians out, and the Germans down"
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Expansion of NATO
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To solidify democratic reforms under way in former Soviet bloc nations, fight the war on terrorism
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Soviet Union Formed and Collapsed
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Formed in 1924, collapsed in 1991
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Bolshevik
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majority
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Menshevik
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minority
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Important Figures
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Gorbachev: last Soviet President
Putin: President from (2000-08) |
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Eastward Expansion
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Ivan the Terrible (1547-1584)
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Baltic Expansion
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Peter the Great (1682-1752)
Estab. St. Petersburg |
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Black Sea Expansion
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Tsarina Catherine the Great (1762-1796) Czar Nicholas II (Tsar)
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15 Republics
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Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Uzbrkistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadzhikistan
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Size of FSU
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2x china or USA, 1/6 of land surface (excluding Antarctica), 11 time zones
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Difference btwn weather and climate
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Climate: what you expect
Weather: what you get |
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3 Natural Conditions
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Latitudinal, continental positions and location of large mountain ranges
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Continentally
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of or pertaining to the mainland of Europe, to Europeans, or to European customs and attitudes
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Permafrost
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a permanently frozen layer at variable depth below the surface in frigid regions: found in Arctic lands in Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia and Russia
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Implications of FSU's climate to agriculture?
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Low temperature, short growing period, limited water supply, drought prone, erosion
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Solutions for harsh ag. conditions
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irrigation systems, draining of marshes, tree belts, damming the Bering Straits, changing river courses
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Natural Resources
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Usually in remote locations, harsh environments, lack of money, waste and mismanagement
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Tiaga and Tundra
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Taiga: moist subarctic forest dominated by conifers (spruce and fir) that begins where the tundra ends
Tundra: level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs and dwarf shrubs |
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Aral Sea environmental problems
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1960-2000 lost 80% of its volume
Likely to disappear by 2020 |
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Population
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FSU: 300 million people
Russia: 142 million people |
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Ethnicities in Russia
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Over 100 nationalities
Russians make up 51% |
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Centrally-planned economy
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Economic system in which economic decisions are made by the state or government rather than by the interaction between consumers and businesses
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Sovkhoz
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state-owned farm of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics paying wages to the workers
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Kolkhoz
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collective farm of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Russia's most "acute" problem
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Population has decreased by almost 700,000 each year
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Bolshevik
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a member of the extremist wing of the Russian Social Democratic party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917
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Perestoika
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policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gobachev in the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s
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Glasnot
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openness in internal and external affairs
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Canadian Provinces and Territories
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British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mantoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, Yukon (Whitehorse), Northwest (Yellowknife), Nunavet (Iqaluit), New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia
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Where in Canada do they speak French?
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Quebec
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