Final Review Flashcards
What is Totalitarianism?
System of rule that seeks control of all aspects of public activity (political, economic and social); it controls all institutional and private arrangements.
What is war?
Armed conflict by different groups in a nation or between countries by land, sea, or air.
What is guerrila?
Irregular small group of soldiers that fight independently and harasses the enemy.
What is holocaust?
Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
What is genocide?
Deliberate killing of a particular racial, political, ethnic or cultural group with the purpose of the total destruction of the group.
What is Dirty War?
A war with secret police (similar to police) that fights “under the water” revolutionary and terrorist insurgents.
What is a revolution?
Social movement (usually violent) to overthrow a government to favor a new system or government.
What is dictatorship?
Form of government ruled by an individual who doesn’t have restrictions by a constitution or laws. It doesn’t allow elections.
What is communism?
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.
What is Cold War?
Hostile situation between countries over ideological differences that lead to threats of military action without breaking the diplomatic relations.
What is Society?
Groups or communities of people living together in a particular country with shared laws, traditions, and values.
What is Civil Society?
The social sphere in which voluntary groups coexist and use their freedom of speech, independent judgment combined with their common likes, etc.
What is Militarism?
The action or cause of military methods, forces and opinions with the ojective of gaining power, strength or an strategic posture according their goals.
What is Self-determination?
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).
What is the League of Nations?
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.
What is the Triple Alliance?
Conspiratory Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy tat agreed to protect themselves if war broke out. It was from 1882 to 1914.
What is Triple Entente?
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.
What is Nationalism?
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.
What is propaganda?
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.).
What is Imperialism?
When a powerful or ambitious nation looks for power over other lands by controlling the seas and around areas.
What is NATO?
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.
What is Warsaw Pact?
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.
What is Marshall Plan?
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.
What is MAD?
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.
