Eastern Europe

If Europe was split into its 5 regions, the GDP of Eastern Europe would be US$2,083,000,000,000. (compared to its counterpart: Western Europe: US$8,113,000,000,000.)

5 regions: Eastern European countries:

Russia

Belarus

Ukraine

Moldova

Romania

Bulgaria

Georgia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Kazakhstan

5 regions: Western European countries:

Andorra

France

Monaco

Switzerland

Liechtenstein

Austria

Germany

Luxembourg

Belgium

Netherlands

If Europe was just split into east and west, the GDP of Eastern Europe would be US$3,992,000,000,000 (compared to its counterpart: Western Europe: US$16,002,000,000,000)

East/West: Eastern European countries:

Russia

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Belarus

Ukraine

Moldova

Romania

Georgia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Kazakhstan

Turkey

Cyprus

Macedonia

Kosovo

Bulgaria

Serbia

Albania

Montenegro

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatia

Slovenia

Hungary

Slovakia

Czech Republic

Poland

East/West: Western European Countries:

Iceland

Ireland

United Kingdom

Norway

Sweden

Finland

Denmark

Germany

Austria

Liechtenstein

Switzerland

Luxembourg

Belgium

Netherlands

France

Monaco

Italy

San Marino

Vatican City

Malta

Portugal

Spain

Andorra

Greece

Eastern Europe is the Eastern portion of the continent of Europe. The countries that border Western Europe are Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia, and Slovenia. Then it includes the in between parts of these countries and Asia.

NovaNET answer; is to unify all people of the slavic ancestry Pan-Slavism was a movement in the mid 19th century aimed at unity of all the Slavic people. The main focus was in the Balkans where Southern Slavs had been ruled over by the two great empires, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. It was also used as political tool by the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. The whole goal of Pan Slaviam was to unify the Slavs. Pan-Slavism, theory and movement intended to promote the political or cultural unity of all Slavs. Advocated by various individuals from the 17th cent., it developed as an intellectual and cultural movement in the 19th cent. It was stimulated by the rise of romanticism and nationalism, and it grew with the awakening of the Slavs within the Austrian and Ottoman empires. Slavic historians, philologists, and anthropologists, influenced by Johann Gottfried von Herder, helped spread a national consciousness among the Slavs, and some dreamed of a unified Slavic culture to replace an allegedly declining Latin-German culture. The first Pan-Slav Congress, held at Prague in 1848 and presided over by Franti�ek Palack�, was confined to the Slavs under Austrian rule and was anti-Russian. The humiliating defeat suffered by Russia in the Crimean War (1853�56) helped transform a vague, romantic Russian Slavophilism into a militant and nationalistic Russian Pan-Slavism. Prominent among the Russian Pan-Slav publicists were Rotislav Andreyevich Fadeyev and Nikolai Yakovlevich Danilevsky. Fadeyev claimed that it was Russia's mission to liberate the Slavs from Austrian and Ottoman domination by war and to form a Russian-dominated Slavic federation. Danilevsky predicted a long conflict between Russia and the rest of Europe, to be followed by a federation of states including the Greeks, Magyars, and Romanians as well as the Slavs. In the reign of Czar Alexander II, the foreign minister, Aleksandr Gorchakov, opposed Pan-Slav aspirations, although many officials were Pan-Slavist. Pressures from the Pan-Slavs probably helped provoke the Russo-Turkish War of 1877�78 but afterward declined. In the decade preceding World War I, Pan-Slav agitation again increased and played a role in the growing conflict between Russia and Austria in the Balkan peninsula, where the Serbs opposed Austria. In 1908, Russia was forced to allow Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but in 1914 Russia supported Serbia in the crisis that began World War I. After the Bolsheviks triumphed in the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Soviet government renounced Pan-Slavism. In World War II, however, Pan-Slavist slogans were revived to facilitate Slavic and Communist dominance of Eastern European countries. Both in the 19th and 20th cent. Pan-Slav aspirations were limited by the conflicting political and economic hopes of the various groups of Slavs

A simplistic answer yes, but one that gets to the heart of the issue: In Eastern Europe there are/were many unresolved conflicts/issues between nations & within each nation. These conflicts had emerged every few years prior to the Second World War. These local conflicts were set aside temporarily when Hitler gained the support of Slovakia, Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria & Romania to attack the Soviet Union in June 1941.

When Stalin's Soviet Union defeated Hitler & his allies in Eastern Europe, the Soviets installed communist governments in these nations to keep them in alignment with the USSR during the Cold War. Tito's communist government with Soviet support in Yugoslavia, kept that nation geographically unified behind Serbian muscle. The Soviet Union's efforts in the Cold War did not allow for dissention in Eastern Europe, nor for the resolution of simmering feuds amongst the nations or territories that it controlled.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, these Eastern European nations were once again free to exert their once-dormant claims on their neighbors (mostly for territory-based on ethnicity , religion, or language of the population).

Most nations resolved these claims peacefully, to exhibit standards of behavior acceptable to potential NATO membership and out of fear for Russian interference. In those nations where future NATO or EU membership was desired, conflicts were resolved. In those places where Russia welded great influence, such as Serbia, then conflicts occurred. Some areas of the Balkans with large Islamic populations became agitated to violence by outside interests. Those nations that border with Russia are under the constant threat of Russian aggression or dominance, and conflicts are more likely.

the western allies wanted the U.S.S.R to join the war agianst Japan

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The region of Eastern Europe would border Southeast Europe.

poland

The environment of Eastern Europe is in extremely poor condition compared to the environment of Western Europe. The former Soviet bloc countries had much lower standards during the Soviet occupation.

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western Europe

The goat

Eastern

The Most important river for Eastern Europes transportation is the Danube River.

They were weak.

The peoples that formed new kingdoms in eastern and central Europe were the Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Moravians, Croats, Serbs, and the Bulgarians.

Serfdom was an unsustainable economic system, and it stunted the growth of the eastern European economy because eastern Europe maintained a farm-based economy long after the rest of the world had turned to an industrial economy.

Romania is similar to Bulgaria: both have mountains and caves, falls and hills, rivers, canyons, plains, wines, strong drinks, Black Sea, Danube, Roman and Greek ruins, orthodox monasteries and churches, museums, both were under Othoman rule many centuries etc.

Barcelona is in Spain, hence, in western Europe.

Russia did.

Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic

The economic and technical assistance offered by the Marsall Plan was not accepted by the Soviets and it's satellites in Eastern Europe.

Hungary and Slovakia