1. Become an expert on Eastern Europe

2. Ethnic group Group of people who share the same language and culture

3. The Slovaks The largest ethnic group in Slovakia

4. Bratislava Capital city of Slovakia

5. Czechoslovakia Broke up in 1993 into Czech Republic and Slovakia due to ethnic differences

6. Czechs Largest ethnic group of the Czech republic

7. Czech Republic Most people live in cities Have a high standard of living

8. Vltava River Major river in the Czech Republic It runs through Prague the capital

9. Transylvania Region of Romania

10. Untied Nations Peacekeepers UN force sent to end fighting in Bosnia- Herzegovina

11. Vilnius Capital City of Lithuania

12. Warsaw Capital of Poland

13. Poland Largest land area and population in Eastern Europe

14. Pope John Paul II In 1978 Karol Wojtyla, a polish church leader became pope of the Roman Catholic Church

15. Solidarity Polish Workers Union

16. Hungary Landlocked country Uses the Danube River for shipping and trade

17. Free Enterprise system After communism collapsed in the early 1990s the countries of Eastern Europe set up a free enterprise system.

18. Eastern European countries that border the Baltic Sea Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland

19. Baltic Republics Many Russians settled here when Russia ruled the Baltic Republics from 1940 to the 1990s

20. Religion in the Baltics Most people of Estonia and Latvia are Protestant, but most Lithuanians are Roman Catholics

21. Former Yugoslavia In the early 1990s countries that used to make up Yugoslavia fought a civil war and broke up into many smaller countries