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World Geography
Greater European Realm
Unit Review Worksheet
Answer the following questions using your textbook. Remember – unless otherwise instructed… all
answers should be in COMPLETE SENTENCES!
List the Key ideas for each of the topics in Chapter 14: Today’s Issues in Europe
Conflict:
Turmoil in the
Balkans
Environment:
Cleaning Up Europe
Economics:
The European Union
Answer the following questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
1. What is the relationship between ozone and smog?
2. What effect did cyanide have on the rivers of Europe?
3. How are Slobodan Milosevic and Vojislav Kostunica different?
4. What do Milosevic and Kostunica have in common?
5. Why is the European Environmental Agency controversial?
6. Who were the South Slavs?
7. What is ethnic cleansing?
8. Where did ethnic cleansing occur and who was the leader associated with it?
9. Which groups were targets of ethnic cleansing?
10. Can Slobodan Milosevic and the KLA best be described as allies or enemies? EXPLAIN!!!
11. Which type of pollution is associated with particulates? Explain
12. How did historic events contribute to the conflict over Kosovo?
13. How did the diversity of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s population contribute to the conflict there?
14. What did international officials discover after Serbian forces withdrew from Kosovo?
15. What are the effects of acid rain?
16. Which region became heavily polluted under Communist rule?
17. Why is pollution such a difficult issue to resolve?
18. What organizations were forerunners of the European Union?
19. Why did European leaders believe that an economic alliance would help prevent war?
20. What are some possible problem associated with admitting formerly communist countries to
the EU?
List the Key ideas for each of the topics in Chapter 17: Today’s Issues in Russia and the Republics
Conflict:
Regional Conflict
Economics:
The Struggle for
Economic Reform
Government:
The Soviet Union’s
Nuclear Legacy
Answer the following questions in COMPLTE SENTENCES.
21. Summarize the conflict in Chechnya.
22. Summarize the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
23. How might a nation move from a command economy (communist) to a demand economy (free
market)?
24. What is another name for Caucasia?
25. What I the name for the decreasing interaction between places as the distance between them
increases?
26. What is the connection between the fall of the Soviet Union and the outbreak of ethnic conflicts
in Russia and the Republics?
27. Why might ethnic tensions in the Caucasus be stronger than in other regions?
28. In the Russian part of Caucasia, where has the most serious conflict taken place?
29. Over the past decade, what has been one of the major goals of Russian economic reformers?
30. How have reformers moved Russia toward a market economy?
31. What are some of the problems faced by economic reformers?
32. Why were world leaders concerned about the security of nuclear weapons in Russia and the
republics after 1991?
33. What other aspect of the soviet nuclear legacy concerned observers?
34. How has the United States assisted Russia in dealing with the nuclear legacy of the Soviet
Union?
35. How are the nuclear policies of Russia related to its economic problems?