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ap hg ch 8 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| balance of power | an equilibrium of power between nations |
| boundary | a line or natural feature that divides one area from another |
| city-state | a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside |
| colonialism | Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. |
| colony | a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country |
| COMECON | The economic association organized by the communist states |
| compact state | A state that posses a roughly circular shape from which the geometric center is relatively equal in all directions. |
| elongated state | A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape. |
| European union | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members |
| federal state | A system where a central government looks after larger national issues and provincial government looks after local issues, An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government. |
| fragmented state | A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory. |
| frontier | A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control. |
| gerrymandering | the drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party, group, or incumbent |
| imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. |
| landlocked states | state surrounded by other land with no direct outlet to the sea |
| microstate | A state or territory that is small in both size and population. |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries |
| perforated state | A state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state. |
| prorupted state | A state that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension, leading away from the main territory. |
| sovereignty | when a state becomes independent and can handle internal and international conflicts. |
| state | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state |
| unitary state | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials. |
| United Nations | an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security |
| Warsaw Pact | treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania |
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