Unit 5 Review

a population under a sovereign government with control over a defined territory

• State

• stateless nation

• nation-state

• colonialism

a single majority culture under a single sovereign government

• stateless nation

• state

• nation-state

• multinational state

the process of a state breaking up into smaller states

• sovereignty

• terrorism

• buffer states

• balkanization

What country is the best example of Balkanization?

• Yugoslavia

• Brazil

• Canada

• Italy

three or more sovereign states working together for a common trade, military, or diplomatic purpose

• nation-state

• terrorism

• supranational organization

• Balkanization

factors that tear apart a state politically or socially

• centrifugal force

• centripetal force

factors that hold a state together socially and politically

• centripetal force

• centrifugal force

the desire of an ethnic group to become an independent state

• ethnonationalism

• devolution

• diplomacy

• terrorism

transfer of power from a central government to sub-national governments or regional groups

• diplomacy

• ethnonationalism

• devolution

• colonialism

The United Nations, NATO, and the European Union are examples of what?

• states

• centrifugal force

• nation-states

• supranational organizations