The Countries of Eastern Europe

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The Countries of Eastern Europe
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Poland

• 200 years
• Loss of identity
• national identitysense of what makes the people
  a nation
• Controlled by Germany, former USSR
• 1980s independence movement

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The Field Country

• North European Plain
• ¾ is open field
• Fertile soil
• Carpathian Mountains
• coal, sulfur, and copper

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Holocaust

• 95 Roman Catholic
• Jewish ghettos in Warsaw
• Ghetto An area where a minority is forced to
  live
• 6 death camps
• 6 million Poles killed, ½ were Jewish
• 9,000 Jews remain

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Soviets

• USSR took Poland, expanded border into Germany
• Germans fled
• Today, nearly everyone living in Poland is Polish

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Catholic Church

• Communism doesnt allow religion
• Catholic leaders worked out compromise with the
  Communist government leaders that allowed
  churches in Poland

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End of Communism

• End of communism didnt bring instant prosperity
  to Poland
• Converted state-controlled industries to private
• Prices rose rapidly
• Mid 90s- economy stabilized

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Czech RepublicSlovakiaHungary
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The Czech Republic

• Pop.10 million
• Vltava River
• Plateaus and mountains
• Separate ethnic group
• Independent in1993

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Path to Nationhood

• Roman Empire ruled until 14th century
• 400 years of rule under Austria
• Czechoslovakia created in 1918
• Stable democratic government

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Path to Nationhood

• Hitler took Czechoslovakia
• Soviet control after WWII- Communism
• 1989-velvet revolutiona revolution without
  bloodshed
• Vaclav Havel transition to a free society and
  economy in 80s
• velvet divorce created Czech and Slovak
  republics in 1993

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Reform

• Privatization of the Czech economy in 90s
• Privatizationis the process of selling
  government-owned industries and businesses to
  private owners who can run them more efficiently

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Two Regions

• West Bohemia
• Quartz
• Prague - capitol
• East Moravia
• Industrial and water pollution
• Deforestation
• 56 of forests gone

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Slovakia

• Independent in 1993
• Pop. 5 million
• Ag region

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Farms

• Collective farmsworkers paid by govt, shared
  profits from products
• Still working to return land to private ownership

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Hungary

• 95 Magyars
• Roman Catholic
• Have had a history of throwing off foreign rulers
• 1956tried to overthrow the Soviet government!

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Landscape

• Size of Indiana
• Danube River
• breadbasket of the world

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Free Enterprise

• Difficulty after Communism
• Privatization in 1990s
• New government system stable