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Chapter 16 Keyterms
AP Human Geography
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Geography
9th Grade
01/08/2007

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Supranationalism
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Effort by three or more states to forge associans for mutual benefit and in pursuit of shared goals.
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League of Nations
Definition
Global organization by the victors of WWI in attempt to secure peace and promote social as well as economic cooperation amoung its members.
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United Nations
Definition
Global organization established at the end of WWII to foster international security and cooperation.
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UNPO
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The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international organization. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories who have joined together to protect their human and cultural rights, preserve their environments, and to find non-violent solutions to conflicts
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Truman Proclamation
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1945: united States would regulate fisheries activities in areas of the high seas adjacent to its coastline,and that U.S. jusrisdiction over hte continental shelf and its contents would be limited to the region within 600 foot isobath
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Benelux
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Economic unions amoung other states
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Exclusice Economic Zone (EEZ)
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Regulaes a states economic rights right up to 200 nautical miles from shore
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international sanctions
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Isolate a country in order to promate change in goverment
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United Nations Conference on Law of the Sea(UNCLOS)
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International law governing the oceans. The treaty provided new universal legal controls for the management of marine natural resources and the control of pollution.
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