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Chp. 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the expansion of a country and the dominance of subjugated peoples | imperialism |
| the precarious balance of power between 2 nations that exists because neither country would survive a war removing the benefit of attacking the other | mutual assured destruction |
| long-range nuclear weapons | intercontinental ballistic missiles |
| the process by which nations remove weapons from their arsensals | nuclear disarmament |
| using terrorism to achieve criminal objectives | criminal terrorism |
| violent armed conflict between nations | war |
| process of viewing and treating people as objects not deserving the treatment ordinarily accorded humans | dehumanization |
| the explosive power of 1 million tons of TNT | megaton |
| a name sometimes given to terrorism because terrorists seek to use dramatic means to make publicize "cause" | political theater |
| a period of hostilities after WWII between the former soviet union and the west | Cold War |
| a political and military alliance originally among 12 nations of the North Atlantic, now 28 | NATO |
| the condition of the nation, in terms of threats from the outside and inside | Homeland/ National Security |
| a surgeon in one location being able with computers and robots to operate on a patient who is in another location | long distance surgery |
| a country supporting terrorism against another nation | state sponsored terrorism |
| terrorism that revolves around drugs. some nacroterrorists use drug dealing to finance their political goals | narcoterroism |
| count established in 2012 to investigate and prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes | international crime court |
| no-holds-barred warfare | total war |
| refers to the new balance of power being attempted by the G-8 nations | new world order |
| marx's power elite uses society's resources to keep itself in power and to exploit the less powerful, capitalists | bourgeoisie |
| bombs, missiles, tanks, planes, guns, ships, submarines, and other weapons | armaments |
| use of an agent that causes disease as a weapons (anthrax, plague, etc) | biological terrorism |
| euphemism for unintended casualities and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations | collateral damage |
| the spread of nuclear weapons to more and more nations | nuclear proliferation |
| marx's term for the warriors, whose labor is expioted by the capitalists | proletarist |
| a chemical defoliant used in vietnam that caused birth defeats and other serious side effects | Agent Orange |
| the merged interests of the military business, and politicians to produce armaments | military-industrial complex |
| terrorism directed by government against its own citizens | repressive terrorism |
| terrorism used in an attempt to bring about change in the political structure | revolutionary terrorism |
| the attempt by nations to out match one another war capabilities, usually refers to the buildup of weapons during the cold war standoff between the soviet union and the west | arms race |
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