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Unit 5 vocab
world geo
Question | Answer |
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Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality |
Nation-State | A country who's population share a common identity or nationality, or ethnic group. |
Theocracy | government run by religious leaders |
Stateless Nation | a group of people with a common political identity who do not have a territorially defined, sovereign country of their own |
Totalitarian Government | a system in which absolute power is exercised over every aspect of life |
Sovereign Nations | self-ruling group that has the power to do everything necessary to govern itself |
Nation | a group of people with a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sense of unity |
Imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. |
Decolonization | The collapse of colonial empires. Between 1947 and 1962, practically all former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence. |
Autonomy | self-government. Independence |
Genocide | systematic killing of a racial or cultural group |
Balkanization | Process by which a state (country) breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities into smaller countries |
Cold War | the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II for global domination |
Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. |
Human Freedom Index | the state of human freedom of 162 countries around the world based on a broad measure that encompasses, economic, civil, and personal freedom. 10 being a perfect score and zero the worst. |