Chapter 16: Eastern Europe

Most of the Balkan Peninsula is covered by -

• lakes

• grasslands

• marshes

• mountains

What body of water is the most important for trade in Eastern Europe?

• Rhine River

• Black Sea

• Mediterranean Sea

• Danube River

What caused the disaster at Chernobyl?

• terrorists

• flooding

• nuclear power plant explosion

• pollution

After World War II, most of Eastern Europe was forced to adopt governments that were influenced by -

• the Baltics

• Germany

• Serbia

• the Soviet Union

Which of the following IS a Baltic republic?

• Belarus

• Estonia

• Bosnia

• Macedonia

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the governments of many Eastern European countries became -

• democratic

• communist

• monarchies

• dictatorships

Major differences between Poland and the Baltic Republics included -

• embroidery styles

• crafts

• language and religion

• food

Which Eastern European country split into 5 separate countries in the 1990s?

• Yugoslavia

• Moldavia

• Czechoslovakia

• Poland

Violence in the Balkans through the 1990s resulted from -

• Soviet domination

• poor economies

• ethnic conflict

• mistreatment of the Magyars

The countries of Serbia, Montenegro, and Croatia were formed -

• after the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• After World War I

• After the breakup of Czechoslovakia

• after the breakup of Yugoslavia