Political Geography Theories AKA: Or How to Take Over the World!! (insert evil laugh here)

If you wanted to take over the world, what part of the world is the most crucial to dominate and control?

People Who Almost Controlled the Whole World… Alexander the Great

Queen Victoria People Who Almost Controlled the Whole World…

Napoleon Bonaparte People Who Tried to Control the Whole World…

Adolf Hitler People Who Tried to Control the Whole World…

Vladimir Putin????? People Who Tried to Control the Whole World…

Political Geography Theories Organic Theory Heartland Theory Rimland Theory Domino Theory Sea Power Theory

Organic Theory Friedrich Ratzel - German Geographer Sometimes referred to as the German School Theory Theorized that states are like organisms and need food to survive, so they must takeover territories (like eating food) to become stronger Inspired Hitler

Heartland Theory Halford Mackinder – British geographer Sometimes called the British School Theory Theorized that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world Hitler liked this one too

Rimland Theory Nichols Spykman Theorized if you control the coast you can control the interior and the Heartland area wasn’t as important

What if? Vladimir Putin is making friends with… Iran, Egypt, China and trying to take back parts of Western Europe (somebody has been doing their AP Human Geography vocabulary)

The Domino Theory Theory that after WWII countries next to Communist countries would eventually become Communist America put into place the Truman Doctrine that stated we would protect countries attack by Communist countries (examples: Korean War and Vietnam War)

Sea Power Theory Alfred Mahan Theorized sea power was crucial to national supremacy In other words, if you controlled the sea, you can control the world

Uh, should somebody in the US Government take AP Human Geography?