Pt 3: Chapter 17 Vocab

Question 1

A power structure dominated by two powers only, as in the case of the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war

Answer 1

Bipolar (power structure)

Question 2

The lengthy period after WW II when the US and the USSR were not engaged in actual combat (a hot war) but were nonetheless locked in a state of deep-seated hostility

Answer 2

Cold war

Question 3

A doctrine, developed after WW II, based on the assumptions that the Soviet Union was an aggressor nation and that only a determined US could block Soviet territorial ambitions

Answer 3

Containment

Question 4

The increased interdependence of nations’ economies. The change is a result of technological, transportation, and communication advances that have enabled firms to deploy their resources across the globe

Answer 4

Economic globalization

Question 5

The condition in which tariffs and other barriers to trade between nations are kept to a minimum

Answer 5

Free trade

Question 6

The view that the country should involve itself deeply in world affairs

Answer 6

Internationalist

Question 7

The 3 components (the military establishment, the industries that manufacture weapons, and the members of Congress from states and districts that depend heavily on the arms industry) that mutually benefit from a high level of defense spending

Answer 7

Military-industrial complex

Question 8

The situation in which nations act together in response to problems and crises

Answer 8

Multilateralism

Question 9

The assumption that any nation will be deterred from launching a full-scale nuclear attack by the knowledge that, even if its destroyed the US, it too would be obliterated.

Answer 9

Mutually assured destruction (MAD)

Question 10

The idea, exposed by President George W Bush, that they US could attack a potentially threatening nation even if the threat had not yet reached a serious and immediate level

Answer 10

Preemptive war doctrine

Question 11

The placing of the immediate interests of domestic producers (through, for example, protective tariffs) above that of free trade between nations

Answer 11

Protectionism

Question 12

Terrorism that transcends national borders and often targets people and locations other than the ones directly at issue

Answer 12

Transnational terrorism

Question 13

The taxes that a country levies on goods shipped into it from other countries

Answer 13

Tariffs

Question 14

The situation in which one nation takes action against another state or states

Answer 14

Unilateralism

Question 15

A power structure dominated by a single powerful actor, as in the case of the US after the collapse of the Soviet Union

Answer 15

Unipolar (power structure)

Question 16

Diplomacy, economic sanctions, and foreign aid as the means of protecting US interests

Answer 16

Soft power