AP Vocab Flashcards

9637023377	Anocracy	A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic but rather displays a mix of the two types Ex: Cambodia displays both democratic and autocratic aspects	0
9637023378	Autocracy	A country that is run according to the interest of the ruler rather than the people Ex: Belarus	1
9637023379	Balance of power	A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries Ex: Until the atomic bomb was developed, The Allies and Axis Powers were at a relative balance	2
9637023380	Boundary	An invisible line the marks the extent of its state's territory Ex:	3
9637025361	City-state	A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding Countryside Ex: Vatican City	4
9637025362	Colonialism	An attempt by one country to its political economic and cultural principles and another territory Ex: The British Colonies in America	5
9637025363	Colony	A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent Ex: Massachusetts under British rule during the 17th and 18th Centuries	6
9637025364	Compact state	A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly Ex: Poland	7
9637027481	Democracy	A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office Ex: The United States	8
9637027482	Elongated state	A state with a long narrow shape Ex: Chile	9
9637027483	Federal state	An internal organization of a state that allocates strong power to units of local government Ex: The United States	10
9637029243	Fragmented state	A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory Ex: The Philippines	11
9637029244	Frontier	Zone separating two states and which exercises political control Ex: Antartica	12
9637029245	Gerrymandering	The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power Ex: When Elbridge Gerry was governor of Massachusetts, he redrew the districts in the state to benefit his party	13
9637029246	Landlocked state	A state that does not have a direct outlets in the sea Ex: Bolivia	14
9637031474	Microstate	A state that encompasses a very small land area Ex: Swaziland	15
9637031475	Multiethnic state	Estate that contains more than one ethnicity Ex: The United States	16
9637031476	Multinational state	A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agreed to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities Ex: The United Kingdom (UK)	17
9637033094	Nation state	A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity Ex: There is no true nation-state left due to migration. However Japan is the best example	18
9637033095	Perforated state	A state that completely surrounds another one Ex: South Africa is a perforated state because it surrounds Lesotho	19
9637033096	Prorupted state	An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension Ex: Thailand	20
9637035356	Self-determination	The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves Ex: The Kurds believe in self-determination which has resulted in the push for Kurdistan	21
9637035357	Sovereignty	Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states Ex: The United States has sovereignty because it has complete control over its internal and external affairs without interference from any other state	22
9637035358	State	An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs Ex: The United States	23
9637037398	Terrorism	The systematic use of violence by a group calculated to create an atmosphere of fear and alarm among a population or to coerce a a government into actions it would not otherwise undertake or refrain from actions it wants to take Ex: Al-Quaeda committed acts of terrorism on 9/11 in order to voice their anger with the decisions the United States government had made	24
9637037399	Unitary state	An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials Ex: France	25