AP Human Geography Unit #4 "Political."
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| African Union (AU) | show 🗑
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| What is the goal of the African Union (AU)? | show 🗑
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| Antecedent Boundary | show 🗑
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| show | Apartheid was a political and social system in South Africa during the era of White minority rule. It enforced racial discrimination against non-Whites, mainly focused on skin color and facial features.
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| What are two main consequences of the apartheid system in Africa? | show 🗑
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| Arctic Council | show 🗑
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| show | The Arctic Council includes the United States, Russia, Sweden, Norway Iceland, Finland, Denmark, and Canada. The Arctic Council promotes coordination, cooperation, and peaceful interaction among all in the Arctic region.
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| [cont.] Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) | show 🗑
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| [cont.] Who is in ASEAN? What is their purpose? | show 🗑
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| Autonomous Region | show 🗑
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| Choke Point | show 🗑
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| show | a. The Bering Strait (United States & Russia)
b. Strait of Hormuz (Persian Gulf & Gulf of Oman)
c. Strait of Gibraltar (Mediterranean Sea & Atlantic Ocean)
d. Bosporus and Dardanelles (Multiple straits leading to Turkey)
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| Colonialism | show 🗑
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| show | A majority of the world's colonies gained their independence between 1945 and 1960. Britain pushed their political, cultural, and economic principles onto the lands that they colonized. They also eradicated many local languages and practices.
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| Consequent Boundary | show 🗑
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| show | Decolonization is the acquisition, by colonized peoples, of control over their own territory.
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| show | Most African countries received their independence in the mid-to-late 1950's.
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| Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) | show 🗑
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| What is the DMZ in Korea? Describe the DMZ in Korea. | show 🗑
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| Democratization | show 🗑
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| show | Devolution is the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.
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| show | Beginning in the 1960's, the federal government of Canada has gradually been transferring responsibilities to territorial governments in Nunavut.
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| Enclave | show 🗑
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| Exclave | show 🗑
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| show | Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial and/or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, often with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.
Ex. Jews in Germany,, Rohingyas in Myanmar
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| European Union (EU) | show 🗑
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| Federal State | show 🗑
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| show | Geometric boundaries are formed by arcs or straight lines irrespective of the physical and cultural features of the land it passes through.
Ex. 49th Parallel,, the line between Mexico and Guatemala,, the line between Canada and the US
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| show | Gerrymandering is the practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries.
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| show | Imperialism involves a policy or ideology of extending a country's rule over foreign nations, often by military force or by gaining political and economic control of other areas.
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| show | International waters are located outside any nation's territorial waters. Ultimately all waters that are at least 200 nautical miles away from the nearest land.
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| Irredentism | show 🗑
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| Multinational State | show 🗑
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| show | Multi-State nations are nations that operate more than one state within its borders.
Ex. (North and South) Korea,, Germany
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| show | A nation is a culturally distinctive group of people occupying a specific territory and bound together by a sense of unity arising from shared ethnicity, beliefs, and customs.
Ex. Basques,, Scots,, Norwegians,, Palestinians,, Hmong Chinese,, the Kurds
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| show | A nation-state is a state in which the great majority shares the same culture and are conscious of it. The nation state is an ideal in which cultural boundaries match up with political ones.
Ex. Iceland,, Ireland,, Tunisia,, Sweden,, Greece,, Japan
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| show | Neocolonialism is the practice of using capitalism, globalization and cultural imperialism to influence a developing country instead of the previous colonial methods of direct military control or indirect political control.
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| What is an example of neocolonialism? | show 🗑
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| show | NATO is an international alliance that consists of 30 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949.
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| What is the purpose of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? | show 🗑
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| Reapportionment | show 🗑
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| show | Redistricting is the process of drawing electoral district boundaries in the United States. State legislatures and advisory committees are responsible for drawing congressional districts in most US states.
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| show | Relic boundaries are former boundary lines that no longer function as such, yet are still marked by some landscape features or differences on the two sides.
Ex. the divisions between West and East Germany,, West and East Berlin,, and Ireland
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| Satellite State | show 🗑
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| Self-Determination | show 🗑
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| Shatter Belt | show 🗑
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| Sovereignty | show 🗑
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| show | A centralized authority that enforces a single political, economic, and legal system within its territorial boundaries. Often synonymous with the term "country."
Ex. The United States is a "state" but is not a "nation" or a "nation-state."
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| show | An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state.
Ex. The Kurds, Hmong Chinese, Basque people, and people of Palestine.
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| Subsequent Boundary | show 🗑
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| show | The right to vote in public, political elections.
Ex. New Zealand, Europe, and North America were the first to allow women to vote (1906-1946.) Central and South America followed suit (1929-1961.) Then followed SE Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
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| show | Occurs when states willingly relinquish some degree of sovereignty in order to gain the benefits of belonging to a larger political-economic entity.
Ex. The United Nations,, NATO,, European Union,, Arctic Council
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| show | An individual or group attempt to identify and establish control over a clearly defined territory considered partially or wholly an exclusive domain; the behavior associated with the defense of the home territory.
Ex. Russia-Ukraine War/Invasion
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| show | The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in pursuit of political aims.
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| show | A government guided by religion.
Ex. Vatican City and the Pope
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| Unitary State | show 🗑
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| The United Nations (UN) | show 🗑
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| United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) | show 🗑
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| show | A boundary that is forced onto a place by an outside force, often a treaty. It may not reflect the existing cultural landscaoe.
Ex. Most African Countries
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| Centripetal Forces | show 🗑
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| Centrifugal Forces | show 🗑
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| show | A city with its surrounding area that forms an independent state.
Ex. Vatican City and Monaco
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| Why were Korea and Vietnam viewed as shatterbelts during the Cold War? | show 🗑
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| show | e. A large land area and multiple ethnic groups.
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