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Where are States Distributed?
Why are Nation-States Difficult to Create?
Why do Boundaries Cause Problems?
Why do states cooperate and compete with each other?
100
This is the northernmost of the Baltic States?
What is Estonia?
100
This is a state in which the political borders match the ethnic borders of one particular ethnic group.
What is a nation-state?
100
This is the Baltic State that most closely fits the definition of a nation-state.
What is Lithuania?
100

These are the two major types of borders.

What are physical and cultural?

100

These are the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.

What are France, USA, Russia, China and the UK.

200

This is the capital of Tunisia and where the Arab Spring started.

What is Tunis?

200
This supranational organization is a military alliance including the United States that was founded in 1949 as a way to counter the Soviet Union.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
200
What country had at one point the world's largest colonial empire?
What is Britain?
200

This is the type of border that is between Texas and Mexico.

What is a physical border? or What is a river? or What is a water border?

200
This event occurred in 1962 when the Soviets started building missiles within firing distance of the United States.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis? (Bonus Question: Why did the Cubans want to build missiles that could reach the United States?)
300
South Africa was a colony of this nation.
What is the United Kingdom?
300
These are the five permanent members of the United Nations security council.
What are Britain, France, Russia, China, and the United States.
300
These are the three states in the Caucasus.
What are Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia?
300
This region of Southern Europe has many small states with ethnic boundaries.
What are the Balkans?
300
This economic alliance was formed in 1949 between the members of the Warsaw Pact, plus Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam.
What is COMECON?
400
This is the current leader of North Korea.
Who is Kim Jong Un?
400
In this year, North Korea and South Korea were separated into two countries.
What is 1948?
400
This is the country that bisects Azerbaijan resulting in the Azerbaijan exclave known as Nakhichevan.
What is Armenia?
400

These are three countries that have exclaves.

What is the USA, Russia, Angola, Spain, Oman, Azerbaijan...

400

This is a country that is currently in the European Union that is NOT part of the Eurozone.

What is Poland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, or Bulgaria.

500
The Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, was implicated in a terrorist bombing of a flight over this city.
What is Lockerbie, Scotland.
500

Although the claim is unrecognized by the United States, this country claims the largest part of Antartica.

What is Australia?

500
In 2008, the ethnic Ossetian minority declared South Ossetia as independent from this country.
What is Georgia?
500
This is the contested strip of land between Libya and Chad.
What is the Aozou Strip?
500

These are TWO economic organizations that work to reduce tariffs between member states.

What are the EU and the USMCA?