Central Europe
Czech Republic
Government-Parliamentary
Velvet Revolution-A non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia.
Bohemia-It is located in the contemporary Czech Republicwith its capital in Prague.
Morvia-a historical country in Central Europe
The Country Faces- Econimic transformation
Slovakia
- It has 5 million people
- They once had communism as their government and underneath communism they had collective farming
- Collective farming is when workers were paid by the government and shared the profits
- Challenges: Struggled to have a good economy since Communism
Hungary
Communist until 1990
Indiana
Breadbasket because of fertile soil
Hard to go from communism to capitolism
Romania
Leader led the county into economic chaos
little electricity only 2 hours of tv a night
soft drink company spent money to open a business
added many jobs
economy is still struggling
Bulgaria
communism and democracy
challenge is moving away from communism
Albania
europes hermit
very poor because it turned away from china and the soviet union
when communism ended they got billions of dollars from other countries
yugoslavia
when communism ended they had alot of fighting
country broke apart because of money and ethnic problems
serbia and montego
high in unemployment and little money because of war
croatia
language and religion caused conflict between croats and serbs
slovenia
solid industial base
helped recover from problems
bonsnia and herzegovina
war when communism ended
iron ore and coal