Essential Social Studies Vocabulary: Practice #2

A partnership between countries.

• alliance

• civil war

• diplomacy

• government

A person living in a territory who has rights and responsibilities granted by the government.

• citizen

• refugee

• sovreignty

• democracy

War between opposing groups of citizens in the same country

• civil war

• terrorism

• revolution

• genocide

To build settlements and develop trade in land that a country controls.

• colonization

• empire

• diplomacy

• sovreignty

A system of government in which a single political party controls the government and the economy

• communism

• democracy

• dictator

• totalitarianism

A form of government in which citizens often elect representatives to govern them

• democracy

• monarchy

• diplomacy

• totalitarianism

A ruler with complete control.

• dictator

• monarchy

• alliance

• sovreignty

Discussion between groups or countries to resolve dispute or disagreement

• diplomacy

• democracy

• alliance

• colonization

A group of people or states ruled by a strong single ruler.

• empire

• government

• monarchy

• imperialism

The belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group

• ethnocentrism

• genocide

• diplomacy

• nationalism