Systems
Examples
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Terms
Potpourri
100
This is a government system ruled by a small group of people.
What is an oligarchy?
100
This country is called the world's largest democracy (It has a Parliamentary Democracy)
What is India?
100
This a ruler with total power over a country, usually has obtained this power by force.
What is a dictator?
100
This is dividing land among countries, When outsiders do it, results are usually not very good. Ex: India & Pakistan, after the Ottoman Empire, Israel & Palestine
What is partitioning?
100
This system is the only one that is a government AND economic system. Either way the government controls pretty much everything.
What is Communism?
200
The people have the most power in this system exercised either directly or through elected representatives
What is a democracy?
200
This Asian nation is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy. It has a small army for defensive purposes only.
What is Japan?
200
This system has a single ruler with absolute power.
What is an autocratic system?
200
AKA the Scramble for Africa, this was held in Germany for European powers to divide Africa among themselves.
What is the Berlin Conference?
300
This form of government has powers divided/shared between a central (national) government and several local (regional) governments
What is Federation?
300
This Middle Easter nation has an absolute monarchy who is wealthy because of petroleum.
What is Saudi Arabia?
300
The South African policy of strict segregation by race.
What is apartheid?
300
A democracy in which the leader is chosen by the legislature.
What is a parliamentary democracy
300
MLK and Gandhi believed in this method to achieve political change
What is non-violent.
400
This is a system in which a central government has supreme authority and no other government bodies can challenge it.
What is a Unitary System?
400
Two wars in which American troops fought and died in order to contain communism.
What are the Korean and Vietnam Wars?
400
A democracy in which the leader of the executive branch is elected directly by citizens
What is a presidential democracy?
500
This is a system in which the government is headed by religious leaders.
What is Theocracy?
500
He was the leader of the Chinese Communists from 1949; Instituted Cultural Revolution & Great Leap Forward
Who was Mao Zedong?
500
Site in Beijing, China, where Chinese citizens gathered to demand greater political rights 1989. The demonstration was crushed by the Chinese military.
What is Tiananmen Square?
500
this is a war fought within a country
What is a civil war?
500
This is the desire for ALL Africans to work for independence no matter where the were in the world.
What is Pan-African Movement?