AP Human Geography

Chapter 7 Study Guide (Part 3)

1. What force has served to counteract separatism?

2. What is a supranational organization? Give at least 2 examples.

3. When were many of these supranational organizations formed?

4. What supranational organization based on a military alliance is the

United States a party of?

5. What are the main benefits to member states for joining a

supranational organization?

6. What is the downside of membership in a supranational

organization?

7. When was the United Nations founded?

8. What was the stated goal of the U.N.?

9. What events caused many global states to join the U.N.?

10.

What two global states are not currently members of the U.N.?

11.
List the three principal parts of the U.N. and give a brief
description of their responsibilities (keep it short).

12.
According to Figure 7.11 on pg. 212, how many members of the
U.N. serve on the Security Council?

13.
How many of those members are permanent? List them. (refer to
Figure 7.11)

14.
How long do the non-permanent members of the Security Council
serve for? (refer to Figure 7.11)

15.
List the regions represented by the non-permanent members
along with the number of representatives each region receives. (refer
to Figure 7.11)

16.

Does the U.N. have a military? Explain (refer to Figure 7.11)

17.

Why did the European Union come into existence?

18.
What was the first iteration of the European Union that came
about in 1944? List the countries that were a part of it.

19.
Why did these three countries decide to work together
economically?

20.
What U.S. policy that helped Europe rebuild after WWII, also laid
the groundwork for increased cooperation between European
countries?

21.
What organization was created in 1952 to remove barriers on the
movement of coal and steel throughout most of Western Europe (write
out the full name)?

22.
What Western European countries were members of this
organization (list them all)?

23.
What did these six countries sign in 1957 to create a single
common market to enable unrestricted movement of goods, people,
services, and capital among them?

24.

What new organization did it create?

25.
How did the 1967 Treaty of Brussels enhance the 1957 Treaty of
Rome and the EEC?

26.
How many additional countries joined the European Community
in 1981?

27.
What did these 12 countries sign in the Netherlands in 1992 that
officially gave birth to the European Union?

28.
How many additional countries have joined the European Union
since 1993?

29.
According to Figure 7.12 on pg. 213, in what year did the
European Union adopt a single currency, the Euro?

30.
How many of the members of the European Union have since
replaced their national currency with the Euro? (refer to Figure 7.12)
31.

What is this collection of members within the EU referred to as?

32.
What two problems have been plaguing the members of the Euro
Zone due to monetary union, and have set off economic crisis in some
of the geographically peripheral countries like Greece, Ireland, Portugal
and Cyprus?

33.
What has the Euro Zone crisis triggered in peripheral countries
such as Greece (list all effects)?

34.

What are austerity measures?

35.
What two reforms has the European Union instituted to prevent a
future Euro Zone crisis from happening?

36.
What notable EU member is not part of the Euro Zone and also
opposed the reforms of the new fiscal compact?

37. What characteristics (list all) have led some scholars to describe the

EU not as a supranational organization, but rather as a

supranational state?