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Chapter 14 Notes
  • Todays Issues of Europe

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Section 1 Turmoil in the Balkans
  • Balkans has many different religions races in a
    confined space.

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Section 1 Turmoil in the Balkans
  • Used to be one country (Yugoslavia), divided into
    6 republics
  • Now 5 countries

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Section 1 Turmoil in the Balkans
  • Ethnic Cleansing- trying to eliminate an ethnic
    group through violence
  • Slobodan Milosevic- Serbias leader who tried to
    get rid of Bosnias Muslims Croats

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Section 2 Cleaning Up Europe
  • Sources of Water Pollution
  • Industry
  • Sewage
  • Chemical Fertilizers
  • Oil Spills

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Section 2 Cleaning Up Europe
  • Sources of Air Pollution-
  • Using Fossil Fuels
  • Smog
  • Ozone
  • Fires
  • Chemical Use
  • Industry

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Section 2 Cleaning Up Europe
  • Smog- brown haze that occurs when the gases that
    are released by burning fossil fuels reacts with
    sunlight forms harmful chemicals.

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Section 2 Cleaning Up Europe
  • Ozone- harmful form of oxygen that causes health
    problems
  • Chemical found in Smog

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  • European Union- Post WWII idea began as a trade
    agreement between a few countries
  • Grew to idea of community, unify continent so war
    could no longer tear the continent apart
  • Goals Conflict resolution and economic
    development (compete with USA)
  • United States of Europe? Problems with that?

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  • Euro- the currency of the member states of the
    European Union

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  • So what is the EU?
  • Dont Write
  • Has its own parliament (786 members), bill of
    rights, court system, currency, flag, anthem,
    army (Rapid Reaction Force)
  • Employs 30,000 people and follows 80,000 page
    legal code/regulations

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  • Dont Write
  • Objectives of the EU
  • Establish European citizenship
  • Ensure freedom, security and justice
  • Promote economic and social progress
  • Assert Europes role in the world
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