Unit 4: Resistance to Liberalism

Question 1

Appeasment to Nazi Germany

Answer 1

Munich agreement, big powers agreed to give Sudetenland to Germany with the promise of no more expansion but then Germany took over the rest of Czechoslovakia

Question 2

German Expansionism

Answer 2

started with the Anschluss of Austria, no nations intervened bc it could start another war with the Great Depression still going on

Question 3

Centrally Planned Economy/Comman Economy Principles

Answer 3

economic equality
collective interest
state ownership of means of production
everyone would work for the whole
private property abolished
mass collectivized farms

Question 4

Dissent

Answer 4

any criticism of state policy was considered anti-soviet and punishable by imprisonment or death

Question 5

Marshall Plan

Answer 5

giving US support/aid to ruined European countries in order to

1. contain the spread of communism
2. stabilized the world according to liberal democratic principles

Question 6

Molotov Plan

Answer 6

Soviet program for economic aid/bilateral trade agreements w socialist countries

Question 7

NATO

Answer 7

defense alliance w Western European countries + CA that supported liberal democracy

Question 8

Warsaw Pact

Answer 8

Soviet Union + Communist countries alliance

Question 9

NORAD

Answer 9

btw USA + CA to defend air space around North America in case of soviet attack

Question 10

Non-alignment Movement

Answer 10

some nations wanted freedom to choose own political/economic paths + not be involved in any war bc of being aligned with a super power

many were former colonies and became known as “Third world”

Question 11

Strategy of Deterrence

Answer 11

each country threatened retaliation if they were attacked through threat of economic sanctions, nuclear weapons, and mutually assured destruction

Question 12

Brinkmanship

Answer 12

an attempt to push a dangerous situation as far as possible without conceding to the enemy

Question 13

Proxy War

Answer 13

when opposing powers use third party as substitutes for fighting each other directly

Question 14

Egalitarianism

Answer 14

political principle that all ppl should be treated as equals / have equal civil, social, political, economic rights under law

Question 15

Neoconservatism

Answer 15

ideology in US that’s a reaction to modern liberalism, it includes aspects of classical liberalism, laissez-faire economics, reduction of government intervention

Question 16

autarky

Answer 16

self-sufficiency

Question 17

Bay of Pigs

Answer 17

a failed, US-supported invasion of Cuba in 1961 that led to the escalation of tensions and threat of nuclear war between the US and the USSR

Question 18

Enabling Act

Answer 18

legislation in which the governing body authorizes someone to take certain actions without any additional act of government

Question 19

Indoctrination

Answer 19

the process of teaching someone or some group to believe in something systematically, with the goal of discouraging questioning or independent thought

Question 20

McCarthyism

Answer 20

the politically-motivated practice of making unsubstantiated accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason

Question 21

Unilateralism

Answer 21

when a nation conducts its foreign affairs by itself, without the involvement of other nations or even its allies

Question 22

Radical

Answer 22

an extreme or revolutionary change in a political regime in which previous political and economic traditionss are rejected

Question 23

Reactionary

Answer 23

opposed to progressive social or political change, often returning to the ways of the past and accepting economic inequality