Period 4 Vocab Flashcards
Nationalism
A feeling of intense loyalty to others who share one’s language and culture of country
Total war
A nations domestic population, in addition to its military, committed to winning a war.
Five year plans (Soviet union)
Short – term plans to transform the economy of the USSR, using communist methods, including rapid, industrialization, and collectivization of agriculture
New deal
U.S President Franklin, Delano Roosevelt (FDR) response to the great depression. Jobs were created to work on infrastructure and other such things in order to decrease unemployment. Policy changes on banking also occurred.
Totalitarianism
Form of government, where the government controls the economic, military, and societal factors in the country
Fascism
An ideology promoting the nation and/or race above the end, individual, and suppressing all opposition (fascism is a specific type of totalitarianism. Not all totalitarian governments are fastest.)
Self-Determination
The ability of a state to determine and manage its own government
Propaganda
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular political cause or point of view.
Non-– aligned movement
Newly independent African and Asian countries wanted to stay out of the US-USSR Cold War rivalry, so they created an alliance to strengthen their resistance of these two major powers.
Marshall plan
The United States gave billions of dollars to help rebuild western Europe after WWII . The goal was to protect and promote Democratic states, and prevent the spread of communism.
COMECON
In response to the Marshall plan, the USSR developed this in an effort to support their allies in Eastern Europe with economic incentives
NATO
A military alliance created by several western nations in 1949 to coordinate their defenses in case of a conflict with the Soviet
Warsaw Pact:
A pact between the USSR and its satellite states in response to NATO, combining their Armed Forces to counterbalance, NATO’S alliances
Nuclear proliferation
The spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon technology into countries that do not already possess them
Proxy War
A war in which major power support a conflict between smaller nations (the major powers do not fight each other directly.) during the Cold War, the USSR and US carried out/participated in these wars in other nations, to advance their own strategic interest
Great leap forward
Mayo, Zedong’s five-year plan to improve the Chinese economy through a communist initiative, such as collectivization
Cultural revolution
Mayo Zedong effort to reinvigorate China’s commitment to communism by silencing critics
