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Concepts 2 Global St
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civil Disobedience | refusing to follow unjust laws without resorting to violence such as using boycotts |
| Containment Policy | Stop the spread of communism outside of those areas already controlled by the Soviet Union |
| Coup-detat | a group of people or one person suddenly overthrows the established government |
| Détente | era in the 1970’s when the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to reduce their nuclear weapons |
| Direct Democracy | A system of government where all people (citizens) vote on leaders and laws. |
| Domino Theory | West feared that as 1 country became communist, it would only be a matter of time before others around would also become communist |
| Glasnost & Perestroika | Soviet policy of the 1980’s ending censorship and opening up the economy to more private businesses |
| Iron Curtain | Churchill’s nickname for the boundary between the democratic nations of Western Europe and those Eastern European nations that were under the influence of the Communist Soviet Union |
| Laissez-faire Economics | governments do not interfere in the economy, leaving the economy and businesses to work themselves out |
| Mass Culture | tons of people all watch, like, purchase the same products |
| Monopoly | one company that controls an entire industry often called trusts. |
| Nation State | a country where the vast majority of their population share a common culture and identity |
| Neutrality | supporting neither side in a disagreement/war |
| New Money | a term used for a person who gains their fortune through hard work during his/her lifetime |
| Popular Sovereignty | governments get their power from the consent of the people who agree to follow its laws, IE the people hold all the true power within society. |
| Propaganda | Advertisements that promote a cause or damage an opposing cause by exaggerating the ideas |
| Public Services | offered by the government to benefit society such as police, fireman, and education |
| Robber Barons | owners of monopolies of the Industrial Age who used questionable tactics and had large amounts of political and social power |
| Scorched-Earth Policy | defensive war tactic where a country burns its grain fields and kills its livestock before the enemy can take it in order to starve them |
| Social Contract | governments have a written or unwritten agreement to protect their citizens’ rights because their power comes from the people who consent to follow the laws of organized society |
| Superimposed Boundaries | a colonizing power forces these upon an area of a world which often leads to wars over ethnic clashes and resources |
| Total War | all resources and people are mobilized during the war effort at home and in battle |
| Unions | group of employees who come together to ask for better benefits/working conditions |
| United Nations | dedicated to keeping World Peace through international peace keeping missions since WWII |
| Yellow Peril | Fear of Western nations like the United States and Europe of the expansion of Asian peoples |
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