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| regional specialization | each country specializes in products that it could make or grow best |
| legacy | something received from a previous era or time |
| complementary region | merging of two regions benefitting both of them |
| What term describes the main plan of COMECON for the countries of Eastern Europe? | regional specialization in which each country specializes in the products it could make or grow best |
| How are the Czech and Slovak territories complementary regions? | one country has industrial potential and the other has agricultural potential |
| What climates are found in Eastern Europe? | Humid continental and Mediterranean |
| What religions are practiced in Eastern Europe? | Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Islam |
| What languages are spoken in Eastern Europe? | Slavic, Romanian, Albanian, Hungarian |
| How could regional specialization be a disadvantage for a country? | increases a country's dependence on other countries for certain products and materials |
| Why are ethnic tensions still strong in the former Yugoslavia? | ethnicity is very basic to people's identity and cannot be forgotten or removed & violence and erupt between groups |
| What countries make-up the former Yugoslavia? | Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia |
| What factors have caused ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe? | isolation, the large number of languages spoken, many religions practiced, and frequent boundary changes which leave large minorities in certain areas |
| How has the breakup of the Soviet Union affected daily life in Eastern Europe? | personal freedoms have increased and economic opportunities are increasing |
| Why were 'iron' and 'curtain' used to describe the western boundary of Eastern Europe during Communist rule? | little interaction between non-Communist Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe seemed as though a physical barrier existed between them |
| What economic activities are important in the countries of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania? | agriculture and industry |
| What roles are played by Eastern Europe's captial cities? | a countries' cultural, political, historical, and economic center |
| What ethnic groups live in the the former Yugoslavia? | Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Slovenians, Macedonians |
| Where have ethnic conflicts been most extreme? | Serbia & Montenegro, Serbia & Herzegovina, and Croatia |
| What is the difference between the breakup of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia? | Yugoslavia's was violent and Czechoslovakia's was peaceful |
| Why was the country of Yugoslavia formed? | after WWI by US, British, and French policy makers who thought the Slavic groups would share common goals |
