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50 Cards in this Set
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A state with control over its internal affairs has...
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sovereignty.
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The map concerning UN membership indicates that Ethiopia...
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became a UN member in the 1940s.
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The United Nations is primarily what kind of cooperative effort?
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Political
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The world's largest state is...
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Russia
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UN experts concluded that Iraq had ________ in 1991 after its Desert Storm defeat, but officials in U.S. president George W. Bush's administration attempted to argue that the UN experts were wrong.
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destroyed its weapons of mass destruction
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True or False: The nation-state concept originated and has been used most extensively in modern Europe. |
True
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Among the world's largest multinational states are...
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Russia and the US
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An area organized into an independent political unit is a...
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state.
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Korea is a good example of a(n)...
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ethnicity divided between more than one state.
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Examples of major nation-states are...
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Germany and Denmark
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Among the world's largest multinational states are...
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Russia and the United States.
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Extremely small island-states in the world, many of which are former European colonies, are called...
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microstates.
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Since the end of the Cold War...
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Russia has undergone political and economic turmoil, including rebellion in the Caucasus region.
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The Commonwealth is primarily...
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an economic and cultural alliance of states once part of the British Empire.
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The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves is known as...
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self determination.
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The Germans established the ________ known as the Caprivi Strip in present-day Namibia to access resources in central Africa, including the Zambezi River.
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proruption
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The most fragmented Southeast Asian state is...
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Indonesia.
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The most populous remaining colony is ruled by
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the United States.
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The motives of European states in establishing colonies can be summarized as all but which of the following?
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guilt
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Which of the following is a small British colony in the Pacific Ocean? a. Pitcairn. b. Hong Kong. c. St. Lucia. d. San Marino. e. Puerto Rico. |
Pitcairn.
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Which of the following is true about both China and Taiwan? a. Both were once ruled by the Nationalists, and both have official relationships with the United States. b. Neither was once ruled by the Nationalists, although both have official relationships with the United States. c. Neither one is a member of the United Nations. d. Both now hold seats in the United Nations. e. Both consider Taiwan to be the sovereign property of the communist government in Beijing. |
Both were once ruled by the Nationalists, and both have official relationships with the United States.
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A feature of the physical environment commonly used to separate states includes all but which of the following?
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geometry
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A frontier, in contrast to a boundary, ...
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is an area rather than a line.
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A South American country with an elongated shape is...
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Chile
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A Southeast Asian country with a partly elongated or prorupted shape is...
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Thailand.
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As shown on our maps, an example of a perforated state is...
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South Africa.
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Cultural boundaries include all but which of the following? a. linguistic b. religious c. geometric d. geomorphic e. ethnic |
geomorphic
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Elongated states may suffer from poor internal communication and difficulty defending borders. Which of the following is not an elongated state? a. Malawi b. Italy c. Gambia d. Namibia e. Chile |
Namibia
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Swaziland makes ________ into a perforated state.
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South Africa
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The boundary between Argentina and Chile is an example of a...
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physical boundary.
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The boundary between the two Germanys was determined by
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Cold War alliances and rivalries after World War II.
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The boundary between the United States and Canada is best described by which of the following? a. geometric only b. water and geometric c. mountain and water d. linguistic and religious e. water and linguistic |
water and geometric
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The eastern part of the border between the United States and Mexico is delineated by...
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the Rio Grande.
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The most fragmented Southeast Asian state is...
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Indonesia.
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The process of redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit the party in power is called...
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gerrymandering.
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As indicated on the maps in this chapter, the shape and size of the Aozou Strip make it an example of a...
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geometric boundary.
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According to the map of regime types, Brazil is an example of a(n)
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somewhat democratic state.
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According to the map of regime types, Chile is now an example of a(n)
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full democracy.
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As a result of a 1979 Soviet invasion, fundamentalist Muslims began a major rebellion in ________, supported in part by weapons supplied by the United States.
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Afghanistan
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As indicated on the map of European economic and military alliances, in 2013 Austria...
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was a member of the European Community only.
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As shown on the map of European economic and military alliances in 1980, which NATO member was directly south of the USSR and bordered on the Black Sea?
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Turkey
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In 2002 the Organization of African Unity was replaced by...
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the African Union.
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In the 1980s, the United States sent bombers to attack ________ in a failed attempt to kill Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, in retribution for his country's support of terrorism.
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Libya
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In ________ in 1979, when the U.S.-supported leader of the country was ousted from power, supporters of the ayatollah seized the U.S. embassy and held 62 Americans hostage until January 20, 1981.
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Iran
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The European Union has...
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promoted economic growth and integration in Western Europe.
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UN experts concluded that Iraq had ________ in 1991 after its Desert Storm defeat, but officials in U.S. president George W. Bush's administration attempted to argue that the UN experts were wrong.
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destroyed its weapons of mass destruction
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What was a distinctive feature of the world's superpowers between the 1940s and 1980s compared to other eras?
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The number of superpowers was much lower than in the past.
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________ entered Afghanistan in the ________ to help fight a jihad against the Soviet Union, and years later he opposed the stationing of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
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Osama bin Laden; 1980s
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True or False: Russia is a member of the European Union. |
False
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True or False: Al Qaeda terrorists consider all U.S. citizens to be potential targets. |
True
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