Vocab Flashcards

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Stalemate

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A situation in which neither side or of an argument can make progress or take action

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Bolsheviks

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A radical communist group of the Soviet union that were led by Lenin to lead the revolution and form a dictatorship “linens puppets”

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League of nations

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An international peacekeeping a situation with 40+ nations that agreed to negotiate dispute and take common action against any state threatened peace

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Mandates

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Authorization granted by the league of nations to remember nation to govern a former German or Turkish colony territory, called mandate

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The 14 points

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A proposal made by US president, Woodrow outlining his vision for any World War I, and would prevent it from ever occurring again

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Collectivization

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Program to modernize Russia, agriculture in farming, technology, in order to in private ownership of farmland in integrated into a state managed system

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Appeasement

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Foreign policy of pacifying in agreed country through negotiation in order to prevent war even the opposing side in advantage, they’ve demanded, to prevent war. They like to please.

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Lebensraum

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Means living Spaces-policy of Nazi Germany that involves expanding German territories to east to provide land and material resources for the German people ( not Jews)

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The MAD doctorine

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Agreement that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack so they both would be annihilated

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Deterrence

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The use of threats to convince or discouraged and opponent from taking action against them

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty organization, created by the US Canada in Europe to provide collective security against the Soviet union

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WARSAW PACT

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A collective defense treaty established by the Soviet union and their allies to reinforce communist dominance in Eastern Europe

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Guerilla warfare

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Warfare fought by the regulars are people who are not with government military police force. Wage fast, moving small action against.

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Containment

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US Jew, political strategic policy during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II

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Apartheid

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Racial segregation in south Africa that dictated that nonwhites live in separate areas from whites

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Pan-africanism

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Attempt to create brotherhood among all people of African dissent

17
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The Great Leap Forward

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Five-year economic plan to modernize the countries agriculture by using communist economic ideologies in China

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The non-aligned movement

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A movement of Third World states led by India that attempted to stay apart from the US Soviet rivalry during the Cold War

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Zionism

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Nationalist movement to establish and support for homeland for Jewish people centered in the area. Wanted to give Jews their own state.

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The Marshall plan

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President Truman created it which propose that the US provide economic assistant, to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe