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Chapter 18 Test
DO NOT MEMORIZE these concepts. They are an overview of concepts only.
Question | Answer |
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nation | a group of people who share a common history and culture |
Tsunami | A "giant sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcano. |
In the early 1900s, some Russians organized what kind of party? | Communist Party |
What are the effects of tsunamis? | kills thosands of people and seriously injures thousands more |
ethnic group | people with a sharred identity |
state | a political unit that controls a fixed territory |
Who was the leader of the communist party? | Lenin |
nation state | a country whose people mostly share a common identity |
what did the Soviet Union become? | world's largest failed state |
Who took power of the Soviet Union in 1924 after Lenin died? | Josef Stalin |
aftershocks | many smaller earthquakes after the main one and can do additional damage |
5 features of a successful nation state | security, political freedom, economic growth, quality of life, and national unity |
Mt. Saint Helens | eruption killed 57 people |
a successful state can | protect its' people from foreign enemies |
What did Stalin's leadership cause for the Soviet population? | great hardships at best and terror at worst |
a successful states' police can | keep its people safe from crime |
Ring of fire | a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the edges of the Pacific Ocean |
a successful nation state protects | the rights and freedoms of its' citizens |
in a free country | the people chose their leaders and elections are honest and fair.the people don't have to fear of getting arrested for/while voting |
How many Soviet citizens died of hunger, or starvation? | 3 to 4 million |
The ring of fire is the result of | plate tectonics |
soviet union ruled by | dictators |
The edges of several tectonic plates meet along the | Ring of Fire |
a successful nation state uses ____ and _____ to promote economic growth | resources and location |
Mount St. Helens | in the Ring of in the state of Washington |
gross domestic product(GDP)is the | total value of goods and services produced in a country |
What else, besides the Soviet Government, did Stalin want to take control of? | The Soviet Society |
when gdp rises | income rises |
when income rises | poverty declines |
What force of Stalin's arrested, imprisoned, and killed 2 to 3 million Soviet citizens? | Salin's secret police, called the NKVD. |
a successful nation state tries to improve peoples ______ by providing them with___ ___,_____ ______, and ________ | quality of life; safe food, clean water, good medical care |
What is home to the most active volcanoes on earth? | The Ring of Fire |
where are most of the volcanoes located on the Ring of Fire? | the eastern edge |
as people live healthier lives | life expectancy increases |
nationalism | feelings of pride and loyalty towards ones' nation |
ethnic group | a group of people who share a unique culture and identity |
naton | share a common history and culture |
nation state | country whose people mostly share a common identity |
state | a political unit that controls a paticular territory |
Kazakstan is too _____ for _____ | arid agriculture |
Mikhail Gorbachev | leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s who made 3 big reforms that led to collapse of the nation-state |
Kazakhstan's most important resource | Oil |
Ethnic conflicts in Kazakhstan are between | Kazakhs (Muslim) and ethnic Russians (Christian) |
Kazakhstan suffers from major environmental problems including | Chemicals in the water supplies from the use of pesticides, toxic waste from old Soviet factories, and nuclear radiation resulting from the Soviet Union secretly testing nuclear weapons there |
Caucaucus countries | Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan |
Azerbijan's most important resource | OIL! |
Ethnic & religious conflicts in Azerbaijan are between | 90% Azeris (Muslim) & 2% Armenian (Christian) |
Which ch 18 country is landlocked? | Belarus |
Which country suffered the greatest damage after the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl? | Belarus |
What three countries are known as the "Baltic States"? | Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia |
On which two things is the economy of Lithuania based? | Agriculture and Fishing (it has limited mineral resources) |
What kind of conflicts exist in Lithuania? | None really because the sense of national unity is so strong |
Which Ch 18 country is an E.U. member state? | Lithuania, it's the only one that has little conflict and a quickly growing economy |
What are Russia's two most important resources? | Natural gas & oil |
How is the crime rate in Russia? | Very high |
What happened to the Chechen ethnic group in Russia? | This group wished to form its own nation-state (Chechnya) but Russia violently opposed them. 100,000 Chechens were killed. There is still violence occurring today. |
After the Soviet Union privatized its businesses (the government sold the businesses to individuals), who purchased the best ones? | The powerful political leaders bought the best businesses and left the broken, old, poorly-producing businesses for everyone else to buy |
Texas wanted to cede from the United States and become its own ________. | nation-state |
Han Chinese is an example of an __________. | Ethnic group, nation |
A synonym for "nation-state" is _______. | country |
I felt very _______ after my country won a war against the bad guys. | nationalistic |
A state has ________ boundaries but it isn't a nation-state unless it is also _______, or independent. | political, autonomous |
Guam is not a _______ because the US is in charge of it (it's not autonomous). | nation-state |
The ________ in the Russia was terrible; the people had very little food and there weren't enough homes to live in. | quality of life |
The ___________ in Azerbaijan is very high; 56 out of every 1,000 babies died in less than a year in 2008 | infant mortality rate |
The Navajo people (like other Native American tribes) are an _______, a _______ and a _______, but they are not autonomous. | ethnic group, nation, state |
Puerto Rico is a ______ and a _______, but it is not autonomous because it's a territory of the United States. | nation, state |