Jeopardy on Modern Europe
Britain
1. How did Britain’s economy fair in the 1970s-1980s? (inflation, high U, taxes, and huge trade deficit)
2. From 1979-1990, she was their conservative leader (Margaret Thatcher)
3. They were Labor Party prime ministers after John Major until 2010 (Tony Blair and Gordon Brown).
4. They experienced this foreign affairs crisis in the 1980s over a colony (Falkland War)
5. This agreement created a coalition government in Northern Ireland (Good Friday Accords)
Germany and France
1. Policy of looking eastward to ties with Poland and Russia (Ostpolitik)
2. CDU leader who helped reunify Germany (Helmut Kohl)
3. Socialist leader who nationalized industry, banks, and increased taxes on the rich (Francois Mitterrand)
4. German problems after reunification (neo-nazism, higher U, slowing of economic growth)
5. He limited France’s role in foreign affairs, allowed Britain to join the EU, and renovated Paris (Georges Pompidou)
Southern Europe
1. Suffering from poor economy and poor relations with neighbors (Greece)
2. Spanish Basque terrorist organization desiring independence (ETA)
3. Fate of Greece’s king (removed after the “Colonels” were overthrown)
4. Why Portuguese economy grow 1985-1995 (join EU and introduction of free market reforms)
5. Terrorist organization that advocated Communism in Italy (Red Brigades)
Cooperation
1. Agreement to protect human rights, encourage economic and technological cooperation (Helsinki Accords)
2. NATO members (US, Canada, Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Denmark, Iceland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Croatia)
3. Pass laws pertaining to the EU (European Parliament)
4. Members of EU that do not use the EU currency (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Malta, Cyprus, Britain, Denmark, Sweden)
5. EU members (Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Denmark, Austria, Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania)
Former Soviet Satellites
1. 1992-1995 war with many atrocities devastated areas of former Yugoslavia (Bosnian War)
2. Economically unsuccessful former satellites (Albania, Bulgaria, Romania)
3. Former Serb leader currently charged with war crimes (Slobodan Milosevic)
4. After their dictator’s death, problems with orphans, AIDS, and the environment (Romania)
5. Experienced the Velvet Divorce on 1/1/1993 (Czechoslovakia)
Wild Card
1. 2 former Soviet republics: returned their nuclear weapons to Russia (Kazakhstan, Ukraine)
2. Arms control agreements between the US and USSR 1970s-1990s (SALT I, SALT II, INF, START I, START II)
3. 5 countries now located where Yugoslavia was (Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo)
4. Name one of two former Communist areas now popular as tourist spots (Croatia, Estonia, Russia)
5. 11/9/1989 (Fall of the Berlin Wall)
Round 2:
USSR
2. Restoring freedoms of speech, religion, assembly, and press (Glasnost)
4. Restructuring the Soviet economy, government, and military (perestroika)
6. 1991 event that temporarily removed Gorbachev from power (August coup)
8. Policy to stop any satellite moving away from Communism (Brezhnev doctrine)
10. Harsh Soviet leader 1964-1982 (Brezhnev)
Eastern Europe
2. Polish trade union that helped collapse Communism (Solidarity)
4. Long-time Communist leader Janos Kadar left in 1988; joined NATO 1999 and EU 2004; much economic growth (Hungary)
6. First noncommunist leader of Czechoslovakia (Vaclav Havel)
8. Close ties to Austria, Germany, and Italy after independence from Yugoslavia (Slovenia)
10. Fate of Romanian dictator Ceausescu (executed with wife after treason conviction)
Former European Soviet Republics
2. Major social problems in Russia today (organized crime, TB, AIDS, alcoholism, drugs)
4. Most economically successful former Soviet republics (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia)
6. Extremely poor former Soviet republic’s economy relies heavily on twenty-five percent of its adults working abroad and on agriculture, including the production of wine, vegetables, tobacco and fruit (Moldova)
8. Orange revolution (Ukraine)
10. Currently economically unified with Russia, and they may unify with Russia completely (Belarus)
Post-Soviet Eurasia
2. Region fought over between Armenia and Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh)
4. Internal conflict fought when Abkhazia tried to break away (Georgia)
6. Pink revolution (Kyrgyzstan)
8. Benefiting from oil discovery in the Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan)
10. 3 problems of the Central Asian Union (rising population and urban growth, lack of democratic reform, volatile resource prices, falling water supply, religious and ethnic tensions, pollution)
Current Leaders
2. Russia (Vladimir Putin)
4. Poland (Ewa Kopecz)
6. Germany (Angela Merkel)
8. France (Francois Hollande)
10. Belarus (Aleksander Lukashenko)
Wild Card
2. Relying heavily on the export of cotton, gold, and oil, this former Soviet republic continues to use Soviet practices in its economy; accused of torturing Al-Qaeda suspects (Uzbekistan)
4. Civil war left 40,000 dead and ½ their intelligentsia fled (Tajikstan)
6. Although they’ve made many progressive reforms towards capitalism, 55% of their workers produce cotton, tobacco, wool, and meat (Kyrgyzstan)
8. Leader of Turkmenistan; made President for Life in 1999; died 2006, but replaced with another dictator
(Saparmurat Niyazov)
10. Iranian heritage; limited arable land and mineral resources (Tajikistan)