Governments
United Nations
What do they have in common?
Vocabulary
War and Conflict
100
A government that can either by an autocracy or oligarchy
What is a dictatorship?
100
The United Nations body that carries out tasks defined by other bodies of the UN.
What is the UN Secretariat?
100
Mountains, valleys, rivers.
What are physical boundaries?
100
A territory completely surrounded by another territory.
What an enclave?
100
The United States went to with this country because the US alleged that the country had weapons of mass destruction.
What is Iraq?
200
A representative democracy.
What is the type of government found in the United States?
200
The spokesperson and leader of the United Nations.
What is the UN Secretary General?
200
Denmark, Germany, Greece, and Ireland.
What are nation-states?
200
A territory separated from the rest of a country by the territory of other countries
What is exclave?
200
The US and the Soviet Union were involved in this ideological conflict over communism and democracy that lasted for 40 years.
What is the Cold War?
300
Direct and representative.
What are the two main forms of democracy?
300
Holds the power to make binding decisions that member governments have agreed to carry out.
What is the UN Security Council?
300
Voting, obtaining a passport, and performing civic duties.
What are features of ethnicities?
300
The government that does all of the central planning and makes all economic decisions.
What is communism?
300
The US went to war with this country to dismantle al-Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks.
What is Afghanistan?
400
A government that selects its head of state from a religious hierarchy.
What is a theocracy?
400
The European Union and United Nations.
What are two examples of supranational organizations?
400
Monaco, Singapore, and Vatican City
What are city-states?
400
The forces that unite people in a country
What is centripetal forces?
400
After WWII, most communist countries join this military alliance.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
A form of government that is commonly comprised of a parliament, a king/queen, and a prime minister who acts as the head of government.
What is a monarchy?
500
The main deliberative body of the United Nations.
What is the UN General Assembly?
500
Basques, Kurds, and Flemish.
What are nations?
500
Forces that tend to tear apart people and deter loyalty to a state.
What is centrifugal?
500
After WWII, most European countries joined this a military alliance.
What is NATO?
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