Ap Flashcards

12472403532	Apartheid	The separation of whites and Blacks in Africa	0
12472418606	ASEAN	the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, an alliance that promotes economic growth and peace in the region	1
12472428446	Autocracy	a system of government by one person with absolute power.	2
12472434646	Autonomous region	a political unit with limited self-government	3
12472442458	Balkanization	Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities	4
12472509308	Blockbusting	A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood	5
12472513569	Centrifugal force	A force the pushes people and countries apart	6
12472513570	Colonialism	Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.	7
12472537313	Demarcation	the marking of boundaries or categories	8
12472554726	Devolution	The transfer of power from national government to local government	9
12472590641	Enclave	an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it	10
12472596870	Ethnic cleansing	Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region	11
12472607511	Ethnic Enclave	A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area	12
12472611984	Ethnicity	identity with a group of people who share the cultural characteristics of a particular homeland or hearth	13
12472658018	Ethnoburb	A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population	14
12472664349	EU	European Union	15
12472671501	Exclave	a part of a country that is seperated from the rest of the country and surrounded by foreign territory.	16
12472682638	Federal state	An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.	17
12472688969	Genocide	Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group	18
12472694617	Gerrymandering	Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.	19
12472700793	Heartland theory	Hypothesis proposed by Halford MacKinder that held that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world.	20
12472711844	Imperialism	A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.	21
12472719058	Irredentism	a policy of advocating the restoration to a country of any territory formerly belonging to it	22
12472737572	Law of the Sea	Law establishing states rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth's seas and oceans and their resources.	23
12472748608	Microstate	A state that encompasses a very small land area.	24
12507236801	Multi-state nation	A multinational state is a sovereign state that comprises two or more nations.	25
12507247711	Municipalities	a city or town that has corporate status and local government.	26
12507254724	NAFTA	North American Free Trade Agreement	27
12507259063	Nationalism	A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country	28
12507263597	Nationality	Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.	29
12507267688	Nation-state	A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality	30
12507270691	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	31
12507275031	Organic theory	Theory that states countries must grow and take over other countries or else they will be taken over	32
12507285029	Race	A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics.	33
12507288166	Redistricting	The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census, to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.	34
12507290711	Rimland theory	Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest.	35
12507293617	Self-determination	Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves	36
12507296270	Sovereignty	Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.	37
12507299869	Stateless nation	A stateless nation is a political term for an ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state.	38
12507306439	Supranationalism	A supranational union is a type of multinational political union where negotiated power is delegated to an authority by governments of member states	39
12507312939	Territoriality	In political geography, a country's or more local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended.	40
12507315435	Territory	an area, region, or piece of land	41
12507318795	UN	United Nations	42
12507323596	Unitary state	An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials	43
12507327115	White flight	working and middle-class white people move away from racial-minority suburbs or inner-city neighborhoods to white suburbs and exurbs	44