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25 Cards in this Set
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Balkanization |
The breakup of larger countries to smaller, ethnic-based countries |
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Chernobyl |
A power plant that was responsible for providing nuclear energy used for electricity |
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Chernozem |
Russian & Ukrainian steppes |
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Chokepoint |
A strategic narrow route providing passage through or to another region. Is a geographical feature on land such as Valley, defile or brigade or at sea such as a strait, which an armed formed is forced to pass, sometimes on a substantially narrower front and therefore greatly decreasing it's combat power, to reach its objective |
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Crusades |
An attempt to reconquer the Near East from the Muslims |
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Czar(tsar,tzar) |
The name given to the emperor of Russia before 1917 |
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Dikes |
Dams that enclose seawater |
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Ethnic cleansing |
Killing of forcing out the rival ethnic group |
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European Union |
A lot of countries working together to help make member countries better |
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Fjords |
Long, narrow, deep inlet of sea in between cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland. |
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Iberian Peninsula |
Consists of Spain and Portugal, also mountainous region |
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Imperialism |
Take over different areas and keeping it forever |
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Loess |
The dried silt from rivers and lakes |
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Nationalism |
Patriotic feeling |
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North Atlantic Drift |
Warm ocean current flowing northeast under the influence of prevailing winds |
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
An intergovernmental military alliance between north America and European countries |
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Polders |
Reclaimed sea bottom; now land |
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Reformation |
A schism/split in western Christianity |
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Renaissance |
A time of renewed interest in learning and art |
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Russification |
Forces cultural Assimilation of ethnic minorities |
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Satellite states |
A country that is formally independent in the world, but under heavy political, economic and military influence or control from another country. |
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Scandinavia |
A group of countries in northern europe(Sweden, Denmark, and Norway) that speaks Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, norwegian) |
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Serfs |
Peasants/ slaves/ low class |
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USSR(Soviet Union) |
A former country of northern Eurasia that became a totalitarian state under communist rule |
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Warsaw Pact |
A political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several European countries. |
