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What is national identity?
This is the sense of what characteristics make up a nation.
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Who is Lech Walesa?
This is the first president of Poland and the leader of the Solidarity worker's union.
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What is Roman Catholicism? (Christianity is not an acceptable answer)
In Poland, 95% of the population practices this religion. (Be specific)
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What is Baltic Countries?
This is the collective name of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
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What is a triptych?
This is the name for a three-paneled display, usually of biblical scenes.
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What is a ghetto?
The area of a city where minorities are forced to live is called this.
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What are the Czech Republic and Slovakia?
Czechoslovakia was broken apart by a velvet divorce to form these two countries.
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Who are the Bosniaks?
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, this ethnic group predominately practices Islam.
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What is Ukraine?
The name of this country roughly translates as "the border."
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What is Soviet Relocation?
This is the term given in class for the method of population transfer used by the USSR.
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What is Holocaust?
This is a Greek term for a fire that burns something completely.
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What is Bulgaria (or Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, or Armenia)?
Name one country that lies along the Black Sea.
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What is Orthodox Christianity?
This branch of Christianity is the dominant religion among Serbs.
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What is the Hermit of Europe?
Give Albania's nickname.
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What is the Danube?
This major river divides the Great Alfold and Transdanubia.
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What is to balkanize?
This is to break up into small, mutually hostile political units.
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What is Islam?
The Bosniaks practice what religion?
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What is Judaism?
Millions of Jews died in the Holocaust; what is the name of the religion traditionally practices by the Jewish people?
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What is Belarus and Russia?
"White Russia" is bordered by the Baltic States, Poland, and Ukraine to the north, west, and south, respectively. Give the proper name of White Russia and the country that borders it to the east.
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What is energy?
Bauxite reproduction requires bauxite, obviously, and abundant amounts of this.
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What is chernozem?
Extremely dark, fertile soil found in the Ukraine is this type of soil.
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What is Czechoslovakia?
Vaclav Havel was the first president of this country.
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What is monotheistic? (Abrahamic will also be accepted.)
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are called this because of their their shared belief that there is one god.
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What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
USSR is short for this.
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What is privatization?
This is the process of selling government-owned businesses to owners outside of government.
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