Central and Eastern Europe
Alonna Medina
Czech Republic
- They were Communist
- Now they have a democrat parliament: had a revolution without bloodshed
- Peacefully separated from Slovakia
- Bohemia has many mines and industries
- Moravia old coal ad steel industries
- Ending air and water population are some challenges they had to face
Slovakia
- More than 5 million lived there
- They grew fruits, vegetables, and grains, they were traditionally an agricultural region
- There economy was struggling
Hungary
- They went from communism to not communism
- About the size of of the state of Indiana
- "breadbasket"
- Economy
Romania
- Nicolae Ceausescu was a leader, lead them to economic chaos
- They can only watch 2 hours of t.v a night
- Spent $150 million
- The multiplier effect is the effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout an economy
- Economy disaster
Bulgaria
- Communism
- Suffered in transitioning away from communism
Albania
- "Europe's hermit"
- They are really poor
- Made the internal tension increase and made them isolate themselves
Yugoslavia
- Broke up into many different countries
- Because they had tensions with all the different other groups
Serbia/Montenegro
- Unemployment
Croatia
- Mad over religion and language
Slovenia
- To recover quickly from war
Bosnia/Herzegovina
- There were two different groups of people that wanted to rule the country
- Iron ore, and lead