Went over the European Map in full this time, then talked about the countries blog.
Notes:
Turkey- Population: 73 million, normal annual income: 10,500 US dollars, Life expectancy: 74 years, main religion: Muslim, important for it's location, we did have one problem with Turkey in the past. There was an undeclared genocide there during WWII. Mass killing is just killing people because they couldn't be trusted, Genocide is when there is a mass killing of people of a specific race or religion.
Serbia- population: 7.5 million people, one of the leading raspberry exporters of the world. The Serbian people aren't happy with the government. was Independent in world war 1 and was our allies. economy is terrible (depression level economy)
Portugal- Population: 10.6 million. one of the oldest countries, gets more tourists than they do population. one of the countries than started NATO. GDP is decreasing at a rate of .3 per year. Lisbon (capital) is the most touristic city, a very anti-war country.
Czech Republic-population: 10.4 million, reason why they became one country is because the president wanted to become communist. has a prime minister, and a prime minister general. Has a lot of old cathedrals and buildings, 195 billion dollar GDP. Good relations with the US.
Lithuania- population 3.6 million. Parliamentary Republic. 15.8 billion dollar GDP, has a President and Prime Minister. very small country.
NATO- is a defensive organization, trying to be-rid of communism.
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