Geo-Political Key Issues 3 & 4

In the 1980s, Yugoslavia was a good example of a federal state. 

• True
• False

Physical boundaries are more important than cultural boundaries. 

• True 
• False

Argentina and Chile are separated by one type of physical boundary, a desert. 

• True
• False

The boundary between Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland is a good example of a physical boundary. 

• True
• False

Al Quaeda terrorists consider all U.S. citizens to be potential targets. 

• True
• False

The most important elements of state power are increasing military rather than economic 

• True
• False

NATO and the Warsaw Pact were designed to maintain balance of power in Europe. 

• True 
• False

The most significant problem experienced by Cyprus during the past four decades was the partition of the island by the British as part of independence. 

• True 
• False

A frontier, in contrast to a boundary is an area rather than a line. 

• True
• False

A distinctive feature of the world's superpowers between the 1940s and 1980s was that the number was much lower than in the past. 

• True 
• False