Final Review

Question 1

What is Totalitarianism?

Answer 1

System of rule that seeks control of all aspects of public activity (political, economic and social); it controls all institutional and private arrangements.

Question 2

What is war?

Answer 2

Armed conflict by different groups in a nation or between countries by land, sea, or air.

Question 3

What is guerrila?

Answer 3

Irregular small group of soldiers that fight independently and harasses the enemy.

Question 4

What is holocaust?

Answer 4

Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.

Question 5

What is genocide?

Answer 5

Deliberate killing of a particular racial, political, ethnic or cultural group with the purpose of the total destruction of the group.

Question 6

What is Dirty War?

Answer 6

A war with secret police (similar to police) that fights “under the water” revolutionary and terrorist insurgents.

Question 7

What is a revolution?

Answer 7

Social movement (usually violent) to overthrow a government to favor a new system or government.

Question 8

What is dictatorship?

Answer 8

Form of government ruled by an individual who doesn’t have restrictions by a constitution or laws. It doesn’t allow elections.

Question 9

What is communism?

Answer 9

Economic and social system in which all (or nearly all) property and resources are collectively owned by a classless society and not by individual citizens.

Question 10

What is Cold War?

Answer 10

Hostile situation between countries over ideological differences that lead to threats of military action without breaking the diplomatic relations.

Question 11

What is Society?

Answer 11

Groups or communities of people living together in a particular country with shared laws, traditions, and values.

Question 12

What is Civil Society?

Answer 12

The social sphere in which voluntary groups coexist and use their freedom of speech, independent judgment combined with their common likes, etc.

Question 13

What is Militarism?

Answer 13

The action or cause of military methods, forces and opinions with the ojective of gaining power, strength or an strategic posture according their goals.

Question 14

What is Self-determination?

Answer 14

The free right of choosing the fate of yourself or of the government that will rule you (talking about of the sum up self-determination of citizens).

Question 15

What is the League of Nations?

Answer 15

International organization with the objective of promoting peace and cooperation between countries after WW1 (in 1920). It was disolved in 1946 and replaced by the United Nations after it’s powerless actions.

Question 16

What is the Triple Alliance?

Answer 16

Conspiratory Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy tat agreed to protect themselves if war broke out. It was from 1882 to 1914.

Question 17

What is Triple Entente?

Answer 17

Informal agreement between Russia (before it had a revolution in the State), France, and Great Britain. It was from 1894 to 1907 to balance the power of the Triple Alliance. It ended when Russia went out of war.

Question 18

What is Nationalism?

Answer 18

Feeling that gives cultural identity to a group of people base in their beliefs, language and superior feeling relationated to other States. It makes them proud of their country.

Question 19

What is propaganda?

Answer 19

Ideas that are false, exxagerated or half-truth to manipulate the public opinión into going against or for a cause. It applied in WW1 by helping the causes of war and by applying the indirect order of YOU helping their cause (a political leader,their government, their reasons for war, etc.).

Question 20

What is Imperialism?

Answer 20

When a powerful or ambitious nation looks for power over other lands by controlling the seas and around areas.

Question 21

What is NATO?

Answer 21

Organization made in 1949 which would provide mutual help between those countries if one of them was attacked.Mostly all the countries that participated in the treaty of NATO were: United States, United Kingdom, West Germany (in 1955), Italy, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, France and Spain.

Question 22

What is Warsaw Pact?

Answer 22

It was a pact created in 1955 that putted the Soviet Union in total control of the member states armies. It was a response for NATO which they saw as menace when they invited Western Germany.

Question 23

What is Marshall Plan?

Answer 23

Plan that provided help to minor countries that were affected by the war with the objective of making them stronger so they wouldn’t turn into communism.

Question 24

What is MAD?

Answer 24

Mutual Assurance Destruction was a theory that states the total destruction if the superpowers go into fight because of the nuclear power both had in that specific moment. It surged during Cold War.

Question 25

What is Mirror Policy?

Answer 25

Also known as the Nuclear Deterrence Policy, it was a policy that consisted of action and reaction. Also it is when one country get something and his rival get the same, competition between them. An example of this mirror policy was the first man in the moon where USSR and USA competed to have the technology to achieve it. One the things USA did was to develop the technology to deliver different types of nuclear weapons.

Question 26

What is Bipolarity?

Answer 26

The term was used in the Cold War as an explanation of the antagonism of the states. Its the distribution of power among the countries supporting USA and the Soviet Union.

Question 27

What is Economic Crisis?

Answer 27

Period of time when the economy of a country is bad and experiences low levels of trade and investment. It brings unemployment.

Question 28

What is Welfare State?

Answer 28

A social system in which the government is in charge of making the minimum standard of living at everyone’s reach. They make this possible by giving free health care, money for unemployed, etc.

Question 29

What is neoliberalism?

Answer 29

A political theory of the late 1900s holding that personal liberty is maximized by limiting government interference in the operation of free markets.

Question 30

What is Globalization?

Answer 30

The movement of integrating all the world (in the financial, trade and communication aspects) by free trade, free flow of capital and cheaper foreign labor markets.

Question 31

What is regionalism?

Answer 31

The system of dividing into separate regions by interest or loyalty.

Question 32

What is the Trade Embargo?

Answer 32

The control a government shows in the trade.

Question 33

What is Economic Recovery?

Answer 33

When the economy starts to show signs of business activity and strengthens after a recession showing improvement in the Gross Domestic Product.

Question 34

What is Economic Miracle?

Answer 34

When the economy presents a sudden growth exceeding the expectations.