Terrorism
State Cooperation
Boundaries
States
Political Geography
100
The leader of Al Qaeda.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
100
The U.S. and Soviet Union became the two world superpowers during this war.
What is the Cold War?
100
This state's distance from the center to any of its outer boundaries does not vary significantly.
What is a compact state?
100
The ability of a state to govern its territory free from outside control.
What is sovereignty?
100
Chile is an example of this state shape type.
What is elongated?
200
On 9/11 these three buildings were attacked and hit in the U.S. .
What are the Twin Towers (World Trade Centers) and Pentagon?
200
The United Nations was created after this war.
What is World War Two?
200
This type of state is long and narrow.
What are elongated states?
200
The three motives of colonialism.
What is god, glory, and gold?
200
The three types of physical boundaries.
What are mountain, water, and desert?
300
These three states were accused by the U.S. of state-sponsored terrorism after 9/11.
What is Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran?
300
A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing alliances.
What is balance of power?
300
This zone is where no state exercises complete political control.
What is a frontier?
300
The first city-states occurred here.
What is Mesopotamia?
300
The three major groups of peoples living in Iraq.
What is Sunni, Shiite, and Kurd?
400
The four U.S. presidents that have been assassinated.
Who is JFK, Lincoln, McKinley, and Garfield?
400
These were two pacts that European nations entered into in order to maintain a bipolar balance of power during the Cold War.
What is NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
400
14 of this continent's countries are landlocked.
What is Africa?
400
The most populous state NOT in the United Nations.
What is Taiwan?
400
A state that has several discontinuous pieces of territory.
What is fragmented state?
500
Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of bombing a federal building and killing 168 people in this U.S. city.
What is Oklahoma City?
500
The OAS includes 35 states in these 3 American regions.
What is North, South, and Central America?
500
Gerrymandering that links like-minded voters connected through oddly shaped boundaries.
What is stacked vote?
500
The line dividing North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel (line of latitude)?
500
The United Nations replaced this organization.
What is the League of Nations?
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