Europe (Chapter 3)

Question 1

Because of their location on the Baltic Sea, what have the nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania often been collectively called?

Answer 1

Baltic States

Question 2

What are deposits of stones and debris left by ancient glaciers?

Answer 2

moraine

Question 3

What is the Baltic States’ region’s largest lake?

Answer 3

Lake Peipus

Question 4

Who were the original inhabitants of the region of Estonia and Latvia?

Answer 4

Balts

Question 5

What is the dominant religion in Estonia and Latvia?

Answer 5

Roman Catholic

Question 6

What is the largest city and capital of Estonia?

Answer 6

Talinn

Question 7

What is the largest city and capital of Latvia?

Answer 7

Riga

Question 8

What is the largest city and capital of Lithuania?

Answer 8

Vilnius

Question 9

What is the largest European nation after Russia?

Answer 9

Ukraine

Question 10

What peninsula is Poland located in that extends into the Black Sea and the Carpathian Mountains?

Answer 10

Crimean Peninsula

Question 11

What is the church that most people in the Crimean Peninsula belong to?

Answer 11

Orthodox Church

Question 12

What is the capital of Ukraine that was one of the original settlements of the Viking people?

Answer 12

Kiev

Question 13

What is the capital of Belarus that is he headquarters of the CIS?

Answer 13

Minsk

Question 14

Who was the leader of the Solidarity labor union rising up against the Communist oppressors?

Answer 14

Lech Walesa

Question 15

What is the capital of the Polish republic?

Answer 15

Warsaw

Question 16

What is the dominant ethnic group in Poland?

Answer 16

Poles

Question 17

What is the dominant religion in Poland?

Answer 17

Roman Catholic

Question 18

What is the port in Poland that has been a large source of income?

Answer 18

Gdansk

Question 19

What is the major industry of Poland?

Answer 19

shipbuilding

Question 20

What used to be composed of the countries of th Czech Republic and Slovakia?

Answer 20

Czechoslovakia

Question 21

What is the forest that dominates the mountains in what used to be Czechoslovakia?

Answer 21

Bohemia Forest

Question 22

Who brought reformation to the Czechs and Slovaks of Behemia?

Answer 22

John Huss

Question 23

What is the capital of Slovakia?

Answer 23

Bratislava

Question 24

What was the former capital of Czechoslovakia and is the modern-day capital of the Czech Republic?

Answer 24

Prague

Question 25

What is the dominant religion in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia?

Answer 25

Roman Catholic

Question 26

Who was responsible for the deaths of 5 million Ukrainians?

Answer 26

Joseph Stalin

Question 27

What is the plain that covers almost half of the country of Hungary

Answer 27

Great Hungarian Plain

Question 28

What is the smaller plain in Hungary that lies in the northwest?

Answer 28

Little Hungarian Plain

Question 29

What is the religion that over half of the people in Hungary follow?

Answer 29

Roman Catholic

Question 30

What is the capital of Hungary that is central to the identity of the Hungarians?

Answer 30

Budapest

Question 31

What are the two major mountain ranges that towers over Romania and preoduces the setting for Transylvania?

Answer 31

Carpathians and Transylvanian Alps

Question 32

What is a small nation culturally linked to Romania that used to be independent?

Answer 32

Moldova

Question 33

What is the capital of Romania that has been called the "Paris of the East"?

Answer 33

Buhcarest

Question 34

What is the major religion in Romania?

Answer 34

Eastern Orthodox

Question 35

What is the largest settlement in Romania?

Answer 35

Romani

Question 36

Who was the former dictator who enforced Communist policies in Romania?

Answer 36

Ceausescu

Question 37

What is the plain located in Bulgaria?

Answer 37

Danubian Plain

Question 38

What the Turkish people group who settle among the Slavs of the region for whom Bulgaria was nammed?

Answer 38

Bulgars

Question 39

What is the capital of Bulgaria?

Answer 39

Sofia

Question 40

What are the two dominant religions in Bulgaria?

Answer 40

the Eastern Orthodox Church and Islam

Question 41

What is the "Land of the Southern Slavs" that was a federation of states from 1945-1991?

Answer 41

Yugoslavia

Question 42

Who was the strong Communist leader who established a unified front in Yugoslavia?

Answer 42

Marshall Tito

Question 43

What were the two nations that each became independent even though they broke away from Yugoslavia together?

Answer 43

Serbia and Montenegro

Question 44

What is the capital and largest city of Serbia that was once the headquarters of former Yugoslavia?

Answer 44

Bulgrade

Question 45

What were the two other nations that each became independent even though they broke away from Yugoslavia that tried to "protect" their ethnic peoples living in the area?

Answer 45

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Question 46

What country's breakaway from Yugoslavia is considered the climax in the gradual breakup of the former country of Yugoslavia?

Answer 46

Kosova

Question 47

What is the capital of Albania that recently opened its doors to the West?

Answer 47

Tirana