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Unite or divideRead the answer and worked solution →Which assumptionRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Nationalism bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Which nineteenth century German philosopher glorified war, believing only conflict grows civilisation?Read the answer and worked solution →In the Second World War, the British answered German carpet bombing of London with raids of how many bombers?Read the answer and worked solution →At least how many people died immediately in the atom bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1962 episode brought humanity close to total destruction when Soviet missiles were found in Cuba?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is defining peace simply as the absence of war called misleading?Read the answer and worked solution →Caste, class and gender inequality built into society cause hidden injury. What is this called?Read the answer and worked solution →The practice of untouchability was outlawed by which document?Read the answer and worked solution →The 2011 Census child sex ratio of 919 girls per 1000 boys is called an index of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Negro slavery in the United States lasted until which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Apartheid treated South Africa's Black majority as second-class citizens until which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Communalism is described as the South Asian counterpart of which evil?Read the answer and worked solution →Which body's constitution says that since wars begin in the minds of men, the defences of peace must be built there?Read the answer and worked solution →The Khmer Rouge terror in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 killed about how many people?Read the answer and worked solution →The FLN freed Algeria from French rule in 1962 but then did what?Read the answer and worked solution →How did Gandhi change the meaning of non-violence in a positive direction?Read the answer and worked solution →Inspired by Gandhi, who fought anti-Black discrimination in the USA in the 1960s?Read the answer and worked solution →Which country is named as a military dictatorship that uses force against its own people?Read the answer and worked solution →Which post-apartheid country is called a prominent political success story?Read the answer and worked solution →The first approach to peace manages competition among sovereign states through which arrangement?Read the answer and worked solution →What is pacifism?Read the answer and worked solution →Informally, a person who seeks to avoid war is called a dove. What is the opposite?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch structural violenceRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the peace makersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the peace yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the peace termsRead the answer and worked solution →Dove or hawkRead the answer and worked solution →

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Unite or divide

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Upper category
United
Lower category
Divided
Items
  1. Category
    United
    Item
    Germany
  2. Category
    United
    Item
    Italy
  3. Category
    United
    Item
    Latin Am.
  4. Category
    Divided
    Item
    Austria-Hu
  5. Category
    Divided
    Item
    Russia emp
  6. Category
    Divided
    Item
    Basques
Instructions
Send each case to whether nationalism united or divided.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 7, Nationalism._

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Which assumption

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Items
  1. Group
    Belief
    Item
    Like a team
  2. Group
    Belief
    Item
    Imagined
  3. Group
    History
    Item
    Old civilisation
  4. Group
    History
    Item
    Nehru's book
  5. Group
    Territory
    Item
    Homeland
  6. Group
    Territory
    Item
    Motherland
  7. Group
    Territory
    Item
    Promised land
Groups
  1. Item
    Belief
  2. Item
    History
  3. Item
    Territory
Instructions
Drop each idea onto the assumption about nations it fits.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 7, Nationalism._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    4
    Question
    Assumptions people make about a nation
  2. Answer
    3
    Question
    Basque people who understand Basque, one in this many
  3. Answer
    1
    Question
    World War after which Versailles redrew borders
  4. Answer
    19
    Question
    Century in which Germany and Italy unified, e.g. 1800s means 19
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 7, Nationalism._

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