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ap hg ch 8 vocab

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balance of power   an equilibrium of power between nations  
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boundary   a line or natural feature that divides one area from another  
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city-state   a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside  
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colonialism   Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.  
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colony   a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country  
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COMECON   The economic association organized by the communist states  
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compact state   A state that posses a roughly circular shape from which the geometric center is relatively equal in all directions.  
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elongated state   A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape.  
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European union   an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members  
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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.  
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fragmented state   A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.  
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frontier   A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.  
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gerrymandering   the drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party, group, or incumbent  
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imperialism   A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.  
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landlocked states   state surrounded by other land with no direct outlet to the sea  
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microstate   A state or territory that is small in both size and population.  
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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  
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perforated state   A state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state.  
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prorupted state   A state that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension, leading away from the main territory.  
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sovereignty   when a state becomes independent and can handle internal and international conflicts.  
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state   the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state  
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unitary state   An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.  
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United Nations   an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security  
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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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