Match your vocabulary words with their definitions.

1 balkanization

2. colonization

control of an area by foreign

governments for political and/or

economic purposes.

a group of individuals of common

ancestry is removed from an area

through death or expulsion.

policy of segregating people by

3. ethnic cleansing

race.

4. apartheid

an area of land between two or

more groups where no military activity or

weapons are allowed.

dividing an area into smaller areas,

which are usually hostile to each

another.

5. demilitarized zone

1. balkanization: divide a region or body into smaller mutually hostile states or groups.

2. colonization: the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

3. ethnic cleansing race: the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, often with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.

4. apartheid: a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.

5. demilitarized zone: an area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities or personnel.