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Unit 4 Vocab Politic
Political Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The desire for The Republic of Ireland to annex Northern Ireland because of their shared culture and history is an example of __________. | Irredentism |
| After about 200 miles from any county, the ocean becomes a part of the _____________ where no person or state has complete control. | Global Commons |
| What do you call a state that lies between 2 more powerful and hostile states? | Buffer State |
| The breakup of Yugoslavia into six new nations is BEST considered an example of | Balkanization |
| In Texas legislature was accused of __________ when they attempted to split the Hispanic vote along the Southern Boarder in order to ensure two Republican districts in this area. | Gerrymander |
| The Sudan is a great example of ____________ because after colonial rule 2 rival groups were left to live within the same political unit. | Superimposed Boundaries |
| The miles of fencing, border control officers, and patrols are a part of the exclusionary _____________ of the Mexico-US border. | Bourder Landscape |
| Force or process that causes disunity within a country | Centrifugal |
| During a brief period during the 19th century Texas was an independent country, and then is was incorporated into the United States. This process is known as _____________. | Annexation |
| The Law of the Sea outlined the ______________, establishing territory rights to 14 miles into the Ocean and resource rights to 200 miles. | Exclusive Economic Zone |
| the different voting districts that make up local, state, and national regions. | Electoral Regions |
| The ____________ of India was violent despite Gandhi’s devotion to Civil Disobedience. Although the violence was mostly committed by the British, Indians also committed violent acts against the royal police until gaining independence after WWII. | Decolonization |
| The United States overall good economic development is __________ because it instills confidence in the governmental system and a sense of national pride despite ethnic differences. | Centripetal |
| What term refers to studying how geography, history, and social sciences affect international politics? | Geopolitics |
| After independence, many Eastern European countries went through the process of ___________, decentralizing their governments, to separate themselves from the Soviet Union. | Devolution |
| The __________ marked what part of Africa European countries could colonize to end decades of scrambling to control scattered pieces of the continent. | Conference of Berlin |
| Of the ethnicities in the US only the various Native American tribes are considered a _________ because they all have similar goals and legal recognition within the government. | Nationality |
| Country with more than one nationality | Multi-national state |
| The European Union can be considered a ___________ because these sovereign states all share a common currency and have special rules regarding trade, travel, and economic development. | Confederation |
| This is the only continent with no permanent residents. | Antarctica |
| 3 or more countries join forces to achieve a common goal. | Supranationalism |
| An exclave is a country which is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory | Exclave |
| political philosophy in which a group or body of members are bound together with a governing representative head. Federalism is the system in which the power to govern is shared between the national & State governments. | Federal |
| government where the bulk of the power lies with a central national government, good for small states and nation-states who do not have a large area or many different viewpoints to take into consideration. | Unitary |
| What term refers to the region between Saudi Arabia and its neighbors where neither country has complete control of the area? | Frontier |
| The process by which a country settles in sparsely populated parts of the world, establishing political and economic control. | Colonialism |
| a political unit with defined boundaries where the majority of the people share common cultural traits and sense of identity. | nation-state |
| The US’s Bread Basket is in its ___________, far away from either of its coastlines. | Heartland |
| What do you can a region controlled by a city that is independent from other cities? | city-state |
| symbolically relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons. used to integrate outlying parts of a country into the state. An example would be Brasília. | Forward Capital |
| idea that if one land in a region came under the influence of Communists, then more would follow in a domino effect. Was used by successive United States administrations during the Cold War. | Domino Theory |
| lines that are drawn between political units before the area becomes well populated | Antecedent Boundaries |
| It is the Afrikaans word for apartness, it was the segregation of blacks in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. It was created to keep the white minority in power and allow them to have almost total control over the black majority. | Apartheid |
| : a group of people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland. These groups are immune to globalization because they have no use to spread worldwide, they simply will fight to control the area that is important to them. | Ethnicity |
| state that contains multiple ethnicities which all contribute to form one nationality | Multi-ethnic State |
| Created after populated and the cultural landscape is developed, often coincide with religions or other cultural distinctions | Subsequent Boundaries |
| Refers to a region in the world that is experiencing extreme instability and is in danger of going through balkanization | Shatter Belt |
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