Global Connections Central Europe

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• Global Connections Central Europe Session I
• Opening small group exercise
• Introduction to course, blackboard, syllabus
• Trip itinerary
• Group formation
• Miscellaneous logistical and other issues
• Historical timeline for central Europe and target
  countries

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Global Connections Central Europe Session
I Small group exercise
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Global Connections Central Europe Session
I Syllabus / Blackboard Useful Links Trip
Itinerary Other Practicum Projects Briefing groups
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Global Connections Central Europe Session
I In-class briefing group formation Practicum
Project group formation
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• Hungary Facts
• Democratic republic (parliamentary system),
  market economy
• Population approx 10 million people
• GDP per capita about 20,000 US (very low Gini
  coefficient)
• EU member 2004
• Capital Budapest
• Language Magyar (Hungarian)
• Currency Forint

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Hungary
EU Countries
Non-EU
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• Czech Republic Facts
• Democratic republic (parliamentary system),
  market economy
• Population approx 10 million people
• GDP per capita about 14,000 US (low Gini
  coefficient)
• EU member 2004
• Capital Prague
• Language Czech
• Currency Czech koruna

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Czech Rep.
EU Countries
Non-EU
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• Global Connections Central Europe Session I
• Czech Republic
• Parliamentary system
• President
• Prime Minister
• Hungary
• Parliamentary system
• President
• Prime Minister

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Timeline Central Europe 900s Wenceslas rules
Bohemia (Czech landsBohemia and Moravia
1000 Founding of the Hungarian state (St.
Stephen/Istvan) 1300s Hussite rebellion in
Bohemia 1400s King Charles IV rules Czech
kingdom 1500s Habsburgs now rule Czech
lands 1680s Habsburgs help Hungarians expel
Ottoman conquerors 17th and 18th c. Habsburgs
(Austro-Hungarian Empire) rule both Czech lands
and Hungary until WWI 1919 Formation of
Czecholslovak Republic Hungarian
Republic 1938-45 Nazi control
First experience with democracy
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Post War Period 1945 End of WWII 1947 Communist
takeovers in CR and Hungary 1957 Hungarian
uprising 1968 Prague spring 1989 Velvet
revolution (CR) 1990 Fall of Hungarian
communists 1993 Velvet divorce 2004 Hungary
and CR join European Union
Soviet style planned economy
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Global Connections Central Europe Session
I Next Time History of central Europe Guest
speaker Dora Piroska, on Hungary