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PRAXIS HIST 3

QuestionAnswer
MARSHALL PLAN money to rebuild Europe after WW2
TRUMAN DOCTRINE US will oppose communism everywhere
BERLIN BLOCKADE airlifting supplies when Soviets blocked city
KOREAN WAR US supported this Asian nation against communists from 19
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Soviets put nukes into Cuba
VIETNAM WAR US supported this Asian against communists from 196
MARKET ECONOMY laissez faire economy - totally free
COMMAND ECONOMY all business run by government
MIXED ECONOMY generally free economy but regulated by government
TRADITIONAL ECONOMY farming and trading economy - no money
SLANDER saying things you know are lies isn't a right
LIBEL printing things you know are lies isn't a right
ABSOLUTE MONARCHY king or queen has all the power
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY king shares power with legislature
PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY legislature has all the power
PRESIDENTIAL DEMOCRACY president shares power with legislature
DICTATORSHIP one person controls the government but it's not a monarch
THEOCRACY religious leaders controls the government
PLESSEY V. FERGUSON "separate but equal" is OK
BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION "separate but equal" isn't equal and isn't OK
REGENTS OF THE UNIV. OF CA. V. BAKKE changes affirmative action from quota based system to race as a factor in the process.
COLD WAR when countries compete without using weapons. ex. USA vs. USSR
ECONOMIC things about business, jobs and money
AMENDMENT additions to the Constitution
GENOCIDE killing lots of people from the same group
POLITICAL ACTION GROUPS groups who join to promote their political ideas
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH it makes the laws
EXECUTIVE BRANCH it enforces the laws
JUDICIAL BRANCH it interprets the laws
PUBLIC SAFETY rights can be limited to protect safety
NATIONAL SECURITY rights can be limited to protect military operations
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY rights can be limited to give minorities a fair chance
CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER rights can be limited to prevent evil from happening
COMPELLING GOVERNMENT INTEREST individual rights can be limited to protect a group
SUPREME COURT highest court in the USA
POLITICAL things about government and voting
SOCIAL things about how ordinary people live every day
CULTURAL things about art, music, books, fashion and hobbies
GEOGRAPHIC things about land and landscape
IMPERIALISM when stronger countries take over weaker countries
ENLIGHTENMENT 1700s - time when logical thought became an important value
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 1800s - when production moved into factories
TREATY OF VERSAILLES this ended World War I and punished Germany
APARTHEID a system of discrimination against blacks in South Africa
MONOPOLY when one company controls an entire industry
MILITARISM a MAIN cause of World War I
NATIONALISM the belief that your country is the best country
JIM CROW LAWS laws that discriminated against blacks
URBAN in the city
RURAL in the countryside
SUFFRAGE the right to vote
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS people who don't go to war because of religious beliefs
FOURTEEN POINTS Wilson's ideas for peace after World War I
McCARTHYISM campaign against communists in the USA in the 19
INDIGENOUS the original people who lived in a place
TSAR/CZAR Russian term for king
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization- protection treaty between USA and western Europe after World War II
WARSAW PACT protection treaty between USSR and eastern Europe after World War II
Ancient Egypt is known for Religious rulership, pyramids and the Valley of kings, Hieroglyphics and the Rosetta Stone
Greece is known for Mythology, social structure and concepts of citizenship, commerce, city-state, colonies, Alexander the Great-king of Macedon, conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria, Athens, Sparta
Rome is known for Mythology, military dominance, stages of govt. Origin and Spred of Christianity, Constaninople, Reason for the fall of the empire.
Order of civilizations Egypt, Greece, Rome
India is known for Caste system, Hinduism (belief in reincarnation and a supreme being of many forms and natures), Muslim conquest
Islam is known for a monotheistic religion characterized by the acceptance of the doctrine of submission to God and to Muhammad as the chief and last prophet of God
Buddhism life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and the enlightenment obtained through right conduct, wisdom and meditation releases one from desire, suffering and rebirth
China is known for Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Construction of the Great Wall
Japan is known for Feudalism, Shinotism, Buddhism, Samurai, emperors, shoguns
Feudalism a political and economic system based on the holding of all land in fief or fee and the resulting relation of lord to vassal and characterized by homage, legal and miltary service of tenants, and forfeiture.
Shinotism religion native to japan, characterized by veneration of nature spirits and ancestors and by a lack of formal dogma
Central and South America are known for Mayas, Aztecs, Incas
Mayas a member of a Mesoamerican Indian people inhabiting southeast Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose civilization reached its height around ad 300-900, noted for architecture and city planning, mat and calendar, hieroglypic writing system
Aztecs a member of a people of central Mexio whole civilization was at its height at the tiem of the Spanish conquesst in the early 16th cent.
Incas a member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru who established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest
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