5 - AICE Key Terms Quiz

How do we generally define the term "Nation"?

• Its a colour area of a political map

• It's another word for state

• A group of people who share particular characteristics like culture

• A group of people who like to hang together near a bus stop

A feeling of intense loyalty to those who share language, history, religion, ethnicity, and/or culture with; it is an extreme pride in one's nation. The belief that one's greatest loyalty is to a shared culture rather than to a leader or border?

• Capitalism

• Nationalism

• Socialism

• Liberalism

A political theory holding all forms of governmental authority to be unnecessary and undesirable and advocating a society based on voluntary cooperation and free association of individuals and groups.

• communism

• regionalism

• nationalism

• anarchism

A form of aggressive and proactive foreign policy, such as a country's advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests.

• jingoism

• individualism

• nationalism

• racism

The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.

• Racism

• Social Darwinism

• Jingoism

• Nationalism

A political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.

• populism

• nativism

• prohibitionism

• pacifism

Ideology describes a closed system of ideas that is used to simplify an understanding of society.

• Ture

• False

In international relations (and history), a region within one country exerts influence and pressure over which another country claims certain exclusive rights.

• Muckraking

• Sphere of influence

• Yellow Jounalism

• Hearstonomics

a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as, armed civilians, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, hit-and-run tactics.

• unalienable right

• guerilla warfare

• abolish

• alter