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Title: Eastern Europe


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Eastern Europe
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Key Concepts
  • Eastern Europe has great cultural diversity
    because many ethnic groups have settled there.
  • Many empires have controlled parts of the
    region, leaving it with little experience of
    self-rule.

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Eastern Europe
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History of a Cultural Crossroads
  • Cultures Meet
  • Location between Asia and Europe shapes Eastern
    Europes history
  • - migration creates diversity, empires delay
    independent nation-states
  • Area includes
  • - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
  • Croatia, Hungary, Poland
  • - Czech Republic, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia,
  • Slovenia, Yugoslavia
  • Cultural crossroadsplace where various
    cultures cross paths
  • - people move through the region, world powers
    try to control it

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  • Empires and Kingdoms
  • Rome holds Balkan Peninsula, Bulgaria, Romania,
    Hungary
  • - later held by Byzantine Empire, then Ottoman
  • Empire in 1300s, 1400s
  • Slavs move in from 400s to 600s Polish,
    Serbian kingdoms form
  • - non-Slavic Magyars take Hungary in 800s later
  • conquered by Ottomans
  • Austria becomes great power in 1400s, takes
    Hungary from Ottomans
  • - in late 1700s, Austria, Prussia, Russia divide
  • up Poland

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Ottoman Empire
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Turmoil in the 20th Century
  • War after War
  • Balkan nations break from Ottoman Empire in
    1908
  • - Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia defeat Ottomans in
  • 1912
  • - Balkanizationa region breaks up into small,
  • hostile units
  • Slavic Serbia wants to free Austria-Hungarian
    Slavs
  • - Serb assassin kills Austrian noble, starts
    WWI

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Gavrilo Princip
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  • War after War
  • After war, Austria and Hungary split
  • - Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland,
  • Yugoslavia gain independence
  • Germany takes Poland in 1939, starts WWII
  • - Soviets capture, dominate Eastern European
  • nations
  • - they become Communist USSRs
  • satellite nations

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Recent Changes
  • In late 1980s, USSR has economic problems,
    Gorbachev makes reforms
  • - Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania
  • remove communism in 1989
  • After communism comes instability, return to
    ethnic loyalties
  • - Yugoslavia violently divides
  • - Czechoslovakia splits Czech Republic,
    Slovakia

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Gorbachev
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Developing the Economy
  • Industry
  • Under communism, government owns and controls
    factories
  • - inefficient system brings shortages, trade
  • deficiencies, pollution
  • After 1989, region tries market economymaking
    goods consumers want
  • - factories are privately owned, but inflation,
  • unemployment rise
  • Cost cutting and improved production help some
    economies grow
  • Lingering Problems
  • Albania has old equipment, lack of materials,
    few educated workers
  • Romanians lack money to invest government owns
    some industries

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A Patchwork Culture
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Numerous languages make regional unification
    difficult
  • Religions include Catholicism (Roman) Eastern
    Orthodox (Byzantine)
  • - Protestant minority Islam from Ottoman Empire
  • Holocaust kills 6 million Jews, half of them
    from Poland
  • Folk Art
  • Folk art is produced by rural people with
    traditional lifestyles
  • - pottery, woodcarving, traditional costumes
  • Folk music influences Frédéric Chopin (Polish),
    Anton Dvorák (Czech)

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Ukrainian Easter Eggs
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Moving Toward Modern Life
  • Less Urban Development
  • Large cities include 1,000-year-old Prague in
    Czech Republic
  • Most of region has fewer urban residents than
    rest of Europe
  • - only 40 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 37
  • in Albania live in cities
  • Cities will grow as industry develops
  • - so will pollution, traffic, housing problems
  • Conflict
  • Fierce loyalty to ethnic groups leads to
    violence
  • - many Serbs hate Croats for WWII collaboration
  • with Nazis

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Prague, Czech Republic
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  • Conflict
  • Discrimination against minority groups
  • - anti-Semitismdiscrimination against Jewish
    people
  • - discrimination against nomadic Romany (Gypsy)
    people
  • Democracy
  • Eastern Europeans must overcome old hatreds
  • Unlike past dictators, officials must obey the
    rule of the law
  • - in 2000, Yugoslavs force out a dictator who
    lost the election

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