| A | B |
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| Hamburg | It is Germany's major port. |
| autobahns | German superhighways |
| Otto von Bismark | This leader united Germany's territories into a single country. |
| Black Forest | This is a tree covered area in western Germany |
| Rhine River | It is Europe's most important inland waterway. |
| Bavarian Alps | This mountain range is in southern Germany. |
| West Germany | It was the western part of a divided Germany after World War II. |
| Berlin | It is the capital of Germany. |
| East Germany | It was the eastern part of a divided Germany after World War II. |
| communism | government controls the economy and society in general |
| acid rain | rainfall with high amounts of chemical pollution |
| dialect | local forms of a language |
| Holocaust | systematic murder of 6 million European Jews and 6 million other Europeans by Hitler and the Nazis |
| the Ruhr | productive industrial area in north central Germany |
| The Berlin Wall | This divided Berlin into two sections from 1961 - 1989 |
| The Brandenburg Gate | Most popular attraction in Berlin, this famous "gate" became part of the Berlin Wall during the Cold War |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of the Nazis in Germany during the 1930s and 1940's |
| communist state | a country whose government has strong control over the economy and society as a whole. |
| reunification | bringing the two part os Germany together under one government |
| infrastructure | the transportation and communication networks on which an economy depends |
| federal republic | a country in which the national government and atate governmemnts share power |
| Switzerland, Austria, and Liechtenstein | the three Alpiine Countries |
| Neutrality | refusing to take sides in disagreements and wars between other countries |
| Danube River | Importnat river that flows from west to eastacross southern Germany |
| Marine West Coast | chief climate of Germany |
| Martin Luther | In the 1500s, this German priest began a new form of Christianity called Protestantism |
| Chancellor | Germans elect a president to carry out ceremonial duties, but the read head of Germany is called the... |
| Reichstag (rike-shtag) | the German Parliament building |
| Geneva | Swiss city that is the center of many international organizations |
| continental divide | high place from which rivers flow in many directions |
| Jura Mountains | small mountain rangr that runs across northwestern Switzerland |
| Mitteland | plateau in Switzerland that runs between the Jura Mountains and the Alps (the "Middle Land") |
| four | Switzerland has __________ official languages. |
| Romansch | Only a tiny percentage of Swiss speak this fourth official language because it is an old language based on Latin. |
| German, French, Italian, and Romansch | The four official languages of Switzerland. |
| cantons | Swiss units of government, these ________ have a great deal of power |
| Austrian Empire | This powerful empire ruled much of central Europe from the 1200s to the early 1900s |
| the Hapsburgs | the one powerful royal family of the Austrian Empire |
| Danube River | This river flows west to east across northern Austria |
| German | The primary language spoken in Austria |
| Vienna | Capital and largest city of Austria |
| Bern | Capital of Switzerland |
