AP Unit 6 vocab Flashcards

9078258716	state	area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government	0
9078258717	Microstate	A state that encompasses a very small land area.	1
9078258718	Sovereignty	Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states	2
9078258719	nation state	State whose territory corresponds to that occupied by particular ethnicity	3
9078258720	city states	Sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding country side	4
9078258721	self determination	Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves	5
9078258722	Multiethnic state	A state that contains more than one ethnicity	6
9078258723	multinational state	A state that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self determination and self government	7
9078258724	Colony	A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.	8
9078258725	Colonialism	Effort by one country to establish settlements in a territory and impose its political economic and cultural principles on that territory	9
9078258726	boundary	invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory	10
9078258727	frontier	A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.	11
9078258728	territorial waters	12 nautical miles, state may set laws regulating passage by other states ships	12
9078258729	Contiguous waters	12-14 nautical miles, state can enforce laws concerning pollution, taxation, customs and immigration	13
9078258730	Exclusive Economic Zone	24-200 nautical miles, state has fishing and mariner life rights	14
9078258731	compact state	a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly	15
9078258732	Elongated State	A state with a long, narrow shape (e.g. Chile)	16
9078258733	Prorupted State	An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension.	17
9078258734	Perforated State	a state that completely surrounds another one	18
9078258735	fragmented state	a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory	19
9078258736	Landlocked state	A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea	20
9078258737	Democracy	Country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office	21
9078258738	Autocracy	A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people	22
9078258739	Anocracy	A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two.	23
9078258740	unitary state	places most power in the hands of central government officials	24
9078258741	federal states	Allocate strong power to units of local government within the country	25
9078258742	Gerrymandering	Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.	26
9078258743	wasted vote	spreads opposition supporters across many districts but in the minority	27
9078258744	excess vote	concentrates opposition supporters into a few districts	28
9078258745	Stacked vote	Distinct areas of like-minded voters are linked through oddly shaped boundaries	29
9078258746	NATO	Military alliance among 16 democratic states include in the United States and Canada +14 European states	30
9078258747	The Warsaw pact	Military agreement among communist Eastern European countries	31
9078258748	European Union (EU)	Design to heal scars from World War II	32
9078258749	COMECON	Designed to promote trade ensuring of natural resources in communist Eastern Europe	33
9078258750	OSCE (Europe)	Active forum for countries concerned with ending conflicts in Europe especially in the Balkans and caucuses	34
9078258751	OAS (organization of American states)	Promote social, cultural, political, and economic links among member states	35
9078258752	AU (African union)	Places an emphasis on promoting economic integration in Africa	36
9078258753	Commonwealth	Seek economic and cultural cooperation	37
9078258754	Terrorism	Systematic use of violence by a group calculated to create fear and alarm among the population in order to make the government take actions it wouldn't normally take	38