Unit 4: Political Organization of Space

Unit 4 Notes Packet

Unit 4 Quizlet

Chapter 7 Key Issue 1: Where Are Ethnicities Distributed?

7.1.1 Identify and describe the major ethnicities of the USA.

7.1.2 Describe the distribution of major US ethnicities among states and within urban areas.

PBS Race Website

These Twins, One Black and One White, Will Make You Rethink Race

Chapter 7 Key Issue 2: Why Do Ethnicities Have Distinctive Distributions?

7.2.1 Describe the patterns of forced and voluntary migration of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans in the United States.

7.2.2 Describe the patterns of migration of African American within the United States.

7.2.3 Explain the laws once used to segregate races in the USA and South Africa.

Great Migration TEDTalk

Chapter 7 Key Issue 3: Why Do Conflicts Arise Among Ethnicities?

7.3.1 Explain the difference between ethnicity and nationality.

7.3.2 Identify and describe the principal ethnicities of Lebanon and Sri Lanka.

7.3.3 Describe how the Kurds, as well as ethnicities in South Asia, have been divided among more than one nationality.

7.3.4 Identify and describe the principal ethnicities in western Asia.

Chapter 7 Key Issue 4: Why Do Ethnicities Engage in Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide?

7.4.1 Describe the process of ethnic cleansing.

7.4.2 Explain the concept of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.

7.4.3 Identify the principal episodes of genocide in northeastern Africa.

7.4.4 Identify the principal episodes of genocide in central Africa.

Genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar

Across Myanmar, Denial of Ethnic Cleansing and Loathing of Rohingya

TED TALK

Portraits of Reconciliation- Rwanda Genocide

New York Times-- News for Current Genocide/ Ethnic Cleansing

Chapter 8 Key Issue 1: Where Are States Distributed?

8.1.1 – Explain the three eras of rapid growth for UN membership.

8.1.2 -- Explain why it is difficult to determine whether some territories are states.

8.1.3 – Explain the concept of nation-state and how it differs from earlier ways to govern.

Chapter 8 Key Issue 2: Why Are Nation-States Difficult to Create?

8.2.1 Understand the difference between a nation-state and a multinational state.

8.2.2 Describe differences among states formerly in the Soviet Union.

8.2.3 Describe patterns of distribution of ethnicities in Russia and the Caucasus.

8.2.4 Explain the concept of colonies and describe their current distribution.

Chapter 8 Key Issue 3: Why Do Boundaries Cause Problems?

8.3.1 Describe the types of physical boundaries between states.

8.3.2 Describe the types of cultural boundaries between states.

8.3.3 Describe the 5 shapes of states.

8.3.4 Describe the differences among the 3 regime types.

8.3.5 Explain the concept of gerrymandering and the 3 ways it’s done.

Chapter 8 Key Issue 4: Why Do States Cooperate and Compete with Each Other?

8.4.1 Describe the principal alliances in Europe during the Cold War era.

8.4.2 Describe the principal economic alliances in Europe in the period since WWII

8.4.3 Explain the concept of terrorism

8.4.4 Describe ways that states have sponsored terrorism

8.4.5 Describe alleged sponsorship of terrorism in Iraq and Iran