Eastern Europe / Russia

a region where political alliances are constantly splintering and fracturing based on ethnicity

• shatter belt
• ethnic cleansing
• cold war

division of a region into smaller regions

• Balkanization
• czar
• permafrost

the expelling from a country or genocide of an ethnic group; Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims were affected most in Serbia

• ethnic cleansing
• satelites
• cold war

The ideological struggle between communism (Soviet Union) and capitalism (United States) for world influence.

• Cold War
• Glasnost
• Russification

Fall of Berlin Wall; fall of communist governments in Eastern Europe

• 1989
• shatter belt
• nuclear waste

Ground that is permanently frozen

• Permafrost
• Perestroika
• black market

A Russian emperor

• Czar
• privitation
• 1989

making a nationality's culture more ethnically Russian

• Russification
• Glasnost
• radioactive materials

Soviet controlled Eastern European Nations during the Cold War 1945-1989

• Satelites
• Balkanization
• Privitation

Two reform movements in Russia. Glasnost was meant to provide opportunities to share new ideas. Perestroika was intended to give businesses more freedom for innovation and competition

• Glasnost and Perestroika
• ethnic cleansing
• black market