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Goodwyn History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fascism | extreme nationalism and militarism; reached its peak in the mid-20th century in Germany, Italy, and Spain |
| Totalitarianism | A system of centralized government with only 1 party, exerts total and repressive control over a country's political, social, economic, and cultural life. |
| militarianism | idea that society is best served when military guides government policy |
| Terrorism | The use of violence against people in order to achieve goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature |
| Propaganda | information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause |
| fundamentalism | belief in the most basic and literal interpretation of a particular religion’s doctrine or holy books |
| Romanticism | inpracticle ideas, or elevation of feeling above reason. Ex. typical of totalitarian governments |
| Prejudice | bias |
| Acquiesce | to agree |
| Hierarchy | the social pyramid |
| posthumnous | occurring after a person's death |
| depression (economic) | characterized by mass unemployment and inflation/ devalued currency, national debt, and reluctant lending from banks |
| inflation | When there is an increased money supply and the value of the dollar goes down. |
| cold war | a "war" that does not use military actions; verbal war |
| Boom Economy | The Demand goes up and inflation goes up, unemployment goes down and income goes up |
| Bust Economy | Demand goes down and inflation goes down, Unemployment goes up and income goes down |
| Pyrrhic Victory | occurs at too great a cost |
| De facto | in fact, in practice |
| De Jure | in law |
| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; oil cartel founded in Baghdad in 1960 by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. |
| Stagflation | inflation plus slow economic growth |
| Recession | widespread decline in growth, employment, and trade over six months to a year |
| Bureaucracy | a large, complex administrative structure |
| Torah | The Jewish Holly Text |
| Anti-Semitism | The hatred of Jews |
| Brown vs. Board | This was the trial that was held in the Supreme Court that ended with the decision that schools will be integrated |
| Loving vs. Virginia | The case where the lovings, an inter-ratially married couple were forced away by the police and took their case to court and won the right to be married |
| Jim Crow | The laws in the South that made life harded for blacks |
| Boycott | to revolt and refuse to use something as an act of protest |
| massive resistance | a term coined by senator harry byrd that means, white political leaders in Virginia should organize and resist federally mandated integration |
| Harry F. Byrd | senator from Virginia from 1933-65, most powerful politician in Virginia, said he wanted massive resistance against integration |
| Barbara Johns | went to moton school, organized the April 23, 1951 “moton walkout” |
| Oliver Hill | lawyer that represented the moton school against prince Edward county along with Spotswood Robinson |
| 13th Amendment | outlaws slavery, draft still legal, imprisonment for crime still legal |
| 14th Amendment | define “citizenship”, equal protection under the law, due process |
| 15th Amendment | 15= blacks are no longer denied the right to vote |
| Neviim | prophetic and historical books |
| Ketuvim | psalms, proverbs, jobes, psalm of Solomon |
| McCarthy | Rupublican Senator from Wisconsen who blamed alot of people of being communist. |
| Ho Chi Minh | led the Vietnamese movement for independence from the French & unification of Vietnam undr a single nat./com. gov't. Died in 1969, five years b4 the formal end of the war but esentially was the leader most responsible 4the defeat of Frnce and US in Viet. |
| Saigon | Capital of South Vietnam |
| Hanoi | Capital of North Vietnam |
| Domino Theory | If one country fell of Comunism, then the others will follow |
| Diem | The Leader of Vietnam before a Military Coop |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | Gave the President the powers to send military aid to countries in need |
| quagmire | soft or foggy area |
| Viet Cong | A communist gorrilla group |
| extricate | to remove |
| Tet Offensive | Video cameras captured the image of a US soldier killing a gorrila fighter |
| Detente | Relaxing of tensions |
| dates for Vietnam War | 1964-1975 |
| casualty | people dead, hurt or lost |
| US casualty numbers for Vietnam War | 50,000 dead |
| Korean War Dates | 1950-1953 |
| Korean War Dates | North Korea attacks South Korea on the 38th Parrallel |
| Korean War Outcome | No clear victor but it remained communist |
| Medina | The 2nd Holliest sight in Islam after Meca |
| 624 CE | When Islam was Founded |
| SALT I and II | groups designed to limit nuclear warfare intervention and nuclear war |
| Mohammed | Arab Prophet and Founder of Islam |
| Koran | Holly scripture of Islam |
| Sunni | A branch of Islam in which people beleive that you dont have to be a desendent of Mohammed to rule |
| Shia | A branch of islam that they believe that you must be a direct desendent of Mohammed to rule |
| Shah | The persain term for King |
| "Reaganomics" | The economic policies of Ronald Reagan that stressed cutting taxing and suppy side economics. |
| Budget Deficit | when the amount of money, to be taken in, is less than the amount to be spent |
| START | Another name for SALT II |
| Challenger | The second space shuttle orbiter to be put into orbit |
| Moral Majority | A goup of people who are deeply conservative on social views and who are largly responcible for the re-election of Reagen |
| Walter Mondale | Democratic President candidate in 1984 and Carters vice president |
| Iran- Contra Scandel | Arms for Hostages; When the US sold weapons to Iran in exchange to hostages then we used the money and gave it to the Contras in Niceragua |
| Mikhail Gorachev | Became the head of the Soviet Government in 1985 after the death of Lenoid in 1982. He made broad programs to modernize the USSR's economy. |
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