In the southern region of Eastern Europe are _______, _______ along Adriatic and Black Seas.

South of the Northern European Plain is the low mountain range called the___________.

The Alps and Balkan mountains put together create one mountain range that covers most of the ______ Peninsula.

The river that begins in Germany and flows east across the Great Hungarian Plain is called ______________.

A faulty reactor at the _________ nuclear power plant in the Ukraine exploded, releasing huge amounts of radiation into the air.

An infrastructure is the set of resources like ______, _____ and ________ that a country needs in order to support economic activities.

Cities like _________, the Capital of Poland, have become major industrial centers.

The architecture of cities like ________, the capital of Czech Republic, also reflects Western influences.

A group called the Rus built a settlement in what is now ____________, Ukraine in the 800s.

Three cities in Eastern European region are especially important--Prague, Kiev, and __________, the Capital of Hungary.

The kind of effort to remove all members of a group from a country or region is called ________________.

The poorest country in Europe, ___________ has struggled since the end of the Soviet Period.

Once a part of Yugoslavia, __________ broke away in 1991.

__________ also broke from Yugoslavia in 1991.

When ________ broke away from Yugoslavia, fighting broke out within the country.

Since the end of ethnic and religious violence, peace has returned to ________________________.

______________ is the largest nation to emerge from the former Yugoslavia.

Formerly a province of Serbia, ____________ declared independence in 2008.

The mountainous country of _____________ separated peacefully from Serbia in June 2006.

__________________, the largest of the Balkan states, is working to recover from years of bad government.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, _______________ has changed dramatically.