| A | B |
|---|
| Cottage industries | goods & products are produced at or near the home |
| Industrial Revolution | begin in Great Britain, goods are now made by machines |
| European Union | an organization to improve economics in Europe. |
| NATO | a military organization made up of the U.S. and democratic countries in Western Europe |
| Warsaw Pact | consist of the U.S.S.R. and satellite communist countries in Eastern Europe |
| Constantinople/Istanbul | important city founded along the trade route on the Bosporus Strait/Byzantine Empire |
| Democracy | founded in Ancient Athens, Greece |
| Republic | founded in Ancient Rome, Italy |
| Bosnian Conflict | a Genocide/ ethnic cleansing of muslims, |
| Iberian Peninsula | Spain & Portugal |
| Scandinavian Peninsula | Norway & Sweden |
| Apennine Peninsula | Italy, also known as the Italian Pen. |
| Jutland Peninsula | Denmark |
| Balkan Peninsula | Greece, Yugoslavia, Bosnia region |
| Satellite Nations | communists countries of Eastern Europe, served as buffer |
| North Atlantic Drift | warm ocean current that causes Europe to be warmer than normal |
| Potato Famine | black rot fungus, caused famine, push factor, and led to migration |
| Causes of WWI | nationalism, alliances, militarism, competition |
| Neutrality | a policy of refusing to take sides |
| Cultural Diffusion | the Columbian Exchange & the Crusades also caused this to take place |
| Great Depression | world-wide economic recession |
| Command Economy | government controls the market |
| Communism | utilizes a 5 year plan & collectivization |
| Soviet Union/Russia | a communist country that has a command economy |
| Totalitarian governments | dictatorship, oligarchy, communism, Nazism |
| Polders | lands reclaimed from the sea, found in the Netherlands |
| Holocaust | the mass killing of millions of Jews & others during WWII |
| Adolf Hitler | dictator of Nazi Germany during WWII |
| Mussolini | fascist dictator of Italy during WWII |
| Migration to urban areas | an effect of the Industrial Revolution |
| Euro | currency used by many member nations of the EU |
| Chernobyl | location of a nuclear explosion |
| Why countries join economic organizations | greater access to markets, improve economic conditions |
| Urbanization | growth of cities |
| An effect of the collapse of the Soviet Union | former communist countries became democratic |
| location of most urban areas | near water |
| Classical | type of architecture & music styles of European culture |
| Causes of WWII | invasion of Poland, Great Depression, Treaty of Versailles |
| United Nations | an international peacekeeping organization founded after WWII |
| Balkanization | the break-up of Balkan Peninsula into smaller hostile nations |
| Renaissance | a rebirth or revitalization of Europe after the Dark Ages |
| Migration to America | a major effect of the Potato famine in Ireland |
