Chapter 18 19 Eastern Europe Eastern Europe in

Chapter 18 & 19

Eastern. Europe �Eastern Europe in 1989 included eight nations: Albania, Bulgaria, Czecholsovakia, East Germany , Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia: �Today: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosina and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania. �Three Eastern nations have their capitals on rivers: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia. �Rivers are important to this region there are eight rivers that pass through these countries.

Eastern. Europe �Landform that separates the Hungarian Basin region from the plains of Poland are the Carpathian Mountains. �The Balkan Mountains have prevented contact among ethnic groups in this region.

Eastern. Europe �Most of these nations are multiethnic- or composed of many ethnic groups. � There are many languages spoken in Eastern Europe, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian. All between the Baltic and Black Sea. � The Slavic languages are the most common of Eastern Europe.

Eastern. Europe �Climate and Vegetation: � There are four climate regions of Eastern Europe. �In Eastern Europe: Mediterranean, humid subtropical, marine west coast, and humid continental. �The dominate type of vegetation in Eastern Europe is mixed forest (deciduous and coniferous)

Eastern. Europe �In class assignment complete the questions on page 358 -359 1 -3 �Write complete sentences.

Eastern. Europe �The Danube is the major river highway of Eastern Europe. �One cause of the ethnic clashes common in Eastern Europe is because most nations in the region have at least one large minority group. �Climate changes from humid continental climate to a marine west coast climate.

Poland: �National Identity: is important to the Polish people. � Sense of what makes the polish people a nation � Poland is covered by the North European Plain. � Thick forest covered the flat lands, but most of the trees were cut down. � Soil is fertile � Has valuable industrial resources, Carpathian Mountain region of south, large deposits of coal, sulfur and copper. � Depends on two minerals from other countries. Iron and petroleum.

Poland: �Polish Nation � The Holocaust; no more than 9, 000 Jews live in all Poland, home of more than 3 million Jews before WWII. . � Nazis sealed off Jewish ghettos in Polish cities, Warsaw � Ghettos areas of a city where a minority is forced to live. � Warsaw rebelled and the Nazis burned it to the ground � 6 concentration camps in Poland � Destruction of Human life is known as the Holocaust.

Poland: �Fleeing Soviet Control: � After WWII the Soviet Union controlled Poland. � Expanded the borders into what once been Germany.