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 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.
 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.
 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.
 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)
 In class assignment complete the questions on page
358-359 1-3
 Write complete sentences.
 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.
 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.
 Polish Nation
 The Holocaust; no more than 9,000 Jews live in all
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Poland, home of more than 3 million Jews before
WWII..
Nazis sealed off Jewish ghettos in Polish cities, Warsaw
Ghettos are 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.
 Fleeing Soviet Control:
 After WWII the Soviet Union controlled Poland.
 Expanded the borders into what once been Germany.