AP Human Geography Political Unit

The Kurdish people are examples of which of the following?

• A people with a sovereign state

• A semi-autonomous region

• A stateless nation

• A nation-state

What four states does Kurdistan exist within?

• Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Armenia

• Turkey, Armenia, Iran, and Georgia

• Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq

• Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Israel

A state or group of states that exists within a sphere of competition between larger states and is often culturally, economically, and politically fragmented and splintered.

• Frontier

• Satellite States

• Shatterbelt

• Buffer State

An independent country located between two larger countries that are in conflict.

• Satellite State

• Buffer State

• Shatterbelt

• Frontier

a state that contains more than one ethnicity.

• United States

• Multi-Cultural State

• Multi-Ethnic State

• Nation-State

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

• Self-determination

• Nationalism

• Predestination

• Nation-State

The UN is an example of what?

• Military alliance

• Multinational state

• Confederation

• Supranational organization

Which decade would have likely seen several new, independent African states created?

• 1770s

• 1910s

• 1960s

• 2000s

During which war did the US & Soviet Union work to develop alliances to expand power?

• World War I

• The war on Terror

• The Cold War

• The Gulf War

During which decade did centrifugal forces tear the Soviet Union apart?

• 1910s

• 1930s

• 1990s

• 2000s