PRAXIS HIST 3
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| MARSHALL PLAN | money to rebuild Europe after WW2
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| TRUMAN DOCTRINE US | will oppose communism everywhere
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| BERLIN BLOCKADE | airlifting supplies when Soviets blocked city
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| KOREAN WAR US | supported this Asian nation against communists from 19
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| CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS | Soviets put nukes into Cuba
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| VIETNAM WAR US | supported this Asian against communists from 196
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| MARKET ECONOMY | laissez faire economy - totally free
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| COMMAND ECONOMY | all business run by government
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| MIXED ECONOMY | generally free economy but regulated by government
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| TRADITIONAL ECONOMY | farming and trading economy - no money
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| SLANDER | saying things you know are lies isn't a right
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| LIBEL | printing things you know are lies isn't a right
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| ABSOLUTE MONARCHY | king or queen has all the power
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| CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY | king shares power with legislature
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| PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY | legislature has all the power
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| PRESIDENTIAL DEMOCRACY | president shares power with legislature
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| DICTATORSHIP | one person controls the government but it's not a monarch
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| THEOCRACY | religious leaders controls the government
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| PLESSEY V. FERGUSON | "separate but equal" is OK
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| BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION | "separate but equal" isn't equal and isn't OK
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| REGENTS OF THE UNIV. OF CA. V. BAKKE | changes affirmative action from quota based system to race as a factor in the process.
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| COLD WAR | when countries compete without using weapons. ex. USA vs. USSR
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| ECONOMIC | things about business, jobs and money
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| AMENDMENT | additions to the Constitution
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| GENOCIDE | killing lots of people from the same group
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| POLITICAL ACTION GROUPS | groups who join to promote their political ideas
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| LEGISLATIVE BRANCH | it makes the laws
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| EXECUTIVE BRANCH | it enforces the laws
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| JUDICIAL BRANCH | it interprets the laws
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| PUBLIC SAFETY | rights can be limited to protect safety
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| NATIONAL SECURITY | rights can be limited to protect military operations
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| EQUAL OPPORTUNITY | rights can be limited to give minorities a fair chance
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| CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER | rights can be limited to prevent evil from happening
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| COMPELLING GOVERNMENT INTEREST | individual rights can be limited to protect a group
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| SUPREME COURT | highest court in the USA
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| POLITICAL | things about government and voting
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| SOCIAL | things about how ordinary people live every day
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| CULTURAL | things about art, music, books, fashion and hobbies
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| GEOGRAPHIC | things about land and landscape
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| IMPERIALISM | when stronger countries take over weaker countries
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| ENLIGHTENMENT | 1700s - time when logical thought became an important value
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| INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION | 1800s - when production moved into factories
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| TREATY OF VERSAILLES | this ended World War I and punished Germany
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| APARTHEID | a system of discrimination against blacks in South Africa
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| MONOPOLY when one company controls an entire industry |
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| MILITARISM | a MAIN cause of World War I
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| NATIONALISM | the belief that your country is the best country
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| JIM CROW LAWS | laws that discriminated against blacks
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| URBAN | in the city
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| RURAL | in the countryside
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| SUFFRAGE | the right to vote
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| CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS | people who don't go to war because of religious beliefs
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| FOURTEEN POINTS | Wilson's ideas for peace after World War I
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| McCARTHYISM | campaign against communists in the USA in the 19
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| INDIGENOUS | the original people who lived in a place
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| TSAR/CZAR | Russian term for king
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| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization- protection treaty between USA and western Europe after World War II
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| WARSAW PACT | protection treaty between USSR and eastern Europe after World War II
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| Ancient Egypt is known for | Religious rulership, pyramids and the Valley of kings, Hieroglyphics and the Rosetta Stone
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| 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
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| Rome is known for | Mythology, military dominance, stages of govt. Origin and Spred of Christianity, Constaninople, Reason for the fall of the empire.
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| Order of civilizations Egypt, Greece, Rome |
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| India is known for | Caste system, Hinduism (belief in reincarnation and a supreme being of many forms and natures), Muslim conquest
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| 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
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| 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
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| China is known for | Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Construction of the Great Wall
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| Japan is known for | Feudalism, Shinotism, Buddhism, Samurai, emperors, shoguns
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| 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.
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| Shinotism | religion native to japan, characterized by veneration of nature spirits and ancestors and by a lack of formal dogma
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| Central and South America are known for | Mayas, Aztecs, Incas
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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| 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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