Chapter 8: Political Geography

Question 1

State

Answer 1

An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.

Question 2

2. Sovereignty

Answer 2

Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

Question 3

Microstates

Answer 3

States with very small land areas.

Question 4

4. United Nations

Answer 4

International peacekeeping organization after world war 2.

Question 5

League of Nations

Answer 5

An attempt of an international organization before world war 2 and was a cause of it.

Question 6

6. Kim Il Sung

Answer 6

Kim Il-sung was the supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, commonly referred to as North Korea, for 46 years, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994

Question 7

38th Parallel

Answer 7

The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth’s equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean.

Question 8

8. Chiang Kai-shek

Answer 8

Chiang Kai-shek, also romanized as Jiang Jieshi and known as Jiang Zhongzheng, was a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975.

Question 9

Mao Zedong

Answer 9

Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People’s Republic of China

Question 10

10. City-State

Answer 10

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.

Question 11

Nation-state

Answer 11

a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent.

Question 12

12. Self determination

Answer 12

the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government

Question 13

Isaiah Bowman

Answer 13

Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an American geographer and President of the Johns Hopkins University, 1935-1948

Question 14

14. Multiethnic State

Answer 14

A state that contains more than one ethnicity

Question 15

Multinational State

Answer 15

State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities

Question 16

16. Colonialism

Answer 16

the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically

Question 17

Boundary

Answer 17

a line that marks the limits of an area; a dividing line.

Question 18

18. Frontier

Answer 18

the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness, especially referring to the western US before Pacific settlement

Question 19

International Boundary and Water Commission

Answer 19

Established in 1889, the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) has responsibility for applying the boundary and water treaties between the United States and Mexico and settling differences that may arise in their application

Question 20

20. Elongated States

Answer 20

A state that is long and narrow

Question 21

Compact state

Answer 21

A state that is small and centralized.

Question 22

22. Prorupted States

Answer 22

A state that has a long extension.

Question 23

Perforated state

Answer 23

A state that completely surrounds another one.

Question 24

24. Fragmented state.

Answer 24

A state that has several discontinuations that are separated from each other.

Question 25

Landlocked State

Answer 25

A state that lacks access to the sea.

Question 26

26. Democracy

Answer 26

a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives

Question 27

Autocracy

Answer 27

a system of government by one person with absolute power

Question 28

28. Anocracy

Answer 28

government regime featuring inherent qualities of political instability and ineffectiveness, as well as an “incoherent mix of democratic and autocratic traits and practices

Question 29

Unitary state.

Answer 29

a sovereign state governed as a single entity. The central government is supreme, and the administrative divisions exercise only powers that the central government has delegated to them

Question 30

30. Federal State

Answer 30

a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions under a central (federal) government

Question 31

Gerrymandering

Answer 31

manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class

Question 32

32. Balance of Power

Answer 32

a situation in which nations of the world have roughly equal power

Question 33

NATO

Answer 33

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949

Question 34

34. Theodore J. Kaczynski

Answer 34

Theodore John “Ted” Kaczynski, also known as the “Unabomber”, is an American anarchist and domestic terrorist

Question 35

Timothy j. Mcveigh

Answer 35

Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist convicted and executed for the detonation of a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995

Question 36

36. Jihad

Answer 36

a struggle or fight against the enemies of Islam

Question 37

Osama Bin Laden

Answer 37

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, the organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks worldwide

Question 38

38. Suddam Hussein

Answer 38

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003

Question 39

39. Operation Desert Storm

Answer 39

The Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition

Question 40

40. Muammar el-Qaddafi

Answer 40

Death of Muammar Gaddafi. Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya, was captured and killed on 20 October 2011 during the Battle of Sirte. Gaddafi was found hiding in a culvert west of Sirte and captured by National Transitional Council forces. He was killed shortly afterwards