MIS eq2

Question 1

nation states

Answer 1

people with a common identity live inside a country with firm borders and a single government eg Hawaii and other US states

Question 2

Iceland

Answer 2

homogenous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts 94%

Question 3

singapore

Answer 3

Chinese 76.8%, Malay 13.9%, Indian 7.9%

Question 4

Qatar

Answer 4

Arab 40%, Indian 18%, Pakistan 18%, Iranian 10%

Question 5

What shows that Iceland has a strong national identity?

Answer 5

Approved baby names list eg Anna is on the list

Question 6

Does singapore have a strong national identity?

Answer 6

The government tried to create one based on Asian values but it didnt work

Question 7

Borders can be created because of 2 things?

Answer 7

• natural borders
• Colonial history and political intervention

Question 8

Natural borders

Answer 8

• rivers eg Niagra between canada and usa
• lakes eg Lake Tanganyika
• mountains eg peyrenees between France and spain
• Island

Question 9

Colonial history and political intervention creating borders

Answer 9

• eg 14 countries met at the berlin conference in 1884
• 50 countries divided by geometric boundaries as well as being turned into colonies (Scramble for Africa)

Question 10

The scramble for Africa

Answer 10

• colonisation motivated by Africa’s resources
• Europeans imposed the culture on African people
• Britain colonised the largest section of Africa
• slave labour took over 5 million lives

Question 11

Jammu and Kashmir

border disputes

Answer 11

• former british empire
• heavily militarised line along India and Pakistan

Question 12

Crimea, Ukraine

border disputes

Answer 12

• Russia has invaded Ukraine to take land that they see as theirs
• 5 countries support russia

Question 13

East sea, China

border disputes

Answer 13

Japan vs China for an island

Question 14

Western Sahara

border disputes

Answer 14

• former spanish colony
• Morocco (spanish land) still owns 100,000 square feet
• developed series of walls known as the ‘berm’

Question 15

Golan heights, Gaza strip, West bank

border disputes

Answer 15

Palestinian group invading Gaza and trying to destroy the military and government

Question 16

nationalism

Answer 16

idea or movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation, with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nations sovereignty over its homeland

Question 17

The white mans burden by Rudyard Kipling

Answer 17

• represents attitudes to the world
• poem that promotes racial superiority

Question 18

Desmond Tutu

Answer 18

‘When missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land’

Question 19

There are 2 different ways towards independance……

Answer 19

• the constitutional path (political)
• the Path of Armed Struggle (war)

Question 20

What was one of the main causes of WW1?

Answer 20

nationalism eg Naziism

Question 21

decolonisation

Answer 21

• no empires have emerged to replace the ones that fell
• post-war decolonisation to avoid germany spreading power
• Ghandi used non-violent rpotests to make change for the modern world

Question 22

Harold McMillan

Answer 22

• UK priminister
• speech in Cape Town in 1960 where 17 African countries achieved independance
• ‘The wind of change is blowing through this continent’

Question 23

tax havens

Answer 23

a country that offers foreign individuals and businesses a minimal tax liability in a politically and economically stable environment, with little or no financial information shared with foreign tax authorities

Question 24

Washington consensus

Answer 24

capitalist belief that free trade has the most benefits

Question 25

What did deregulation lead to?

Answer 25

State interference being reduced and many companies turned to privatisation

Question 26

What were the ‘paradise papers’?

Answer 26

A leak of people and companies using tax havens
- eg Shakira, Prince Charles,
- Gary Likener avoided taxes on his Barbados home
- Lewis Hamilton avoided tax on £16.5m jett