Ideologies
Economic system based on free market, fair competition wise consumers profit motivated producers and minimum government
Capitalism
1723 influential Scottish political economist who challenged key ideas on mercantile system how free market economy could work
Adam Smith
Proletariat
form of government in which one person or small group possesses absolute power
Dictatorships
foreign policy of stopping the spread of communism by establishing strategic allies around the world through trade and military alliances
ideology developed overtime to address concerns with the inequality and injustices created by a capitalist society while remaining focused on individual rights
Modern Liberalism
idea that law itself not an individual had the greatest power all individuals are equal before the law and subjected to law
Rule of Law
oppressed working class must over come it property owning oppressors through revolution, together towards becoming a classless society property is owned by community, people share in benefits of production
Communism
authoritarian system of government extreme militaristic nationalism a belief in the rule of the elite
Fascism
international behavior or foreigh policy that takes a country to the brink of war pushing one's demands to the point of threatening military action
Brinkmanship
oppressed working class must overcome it property owning oppressors through revolution
Communism
economic system based on free market fair competition wise consumers profit motivated producers and minimum government
capitalism
Political ideology that advocates a peaceful evolutionary transition of society from capitalism to socialism
Democratic Socialism
a fascist political ideology based on complete rejection of the political values of liberalism by creating totalitarian dictatorship focused on ideas of national power and racial superiority also called National Socialism
Nazism
a period of the Cold War which major powers tried to lessen the tensions between them through diplomacy treaties arms talks and reduction
Dentente
idea that woking class should overthrow the capitalist class and establish a classless society where property would be owned by the state
Marxism
British Philosopher individuals should be free to act as they wish so long as their actions did not intervene in the free market
John Stuart Mill
publicly funded medical care programs that provide economic and social aspects of society
Social Programs
based on interpretation of communism repression of political opponents
stalinism
developed a foreign policy to support anti-communist forces in Greece and Turkey Support to defeat communism
Truman Doctrine
based on cooperative communities with improved living and working conditions for industrial workers
Utopian Socialism
principal of minimal govenment intervention in lives of individual and working of economy
limited government
economic crisis that began with stock market crash in 1929-1930 Bank Failed factories closed many people became unemployed and internationally trade declined
Ideology that promotes the notion that some individual or groups achieve power and advantage over others through competition because they are stronger and fitter
Social Darwinism
a political and military policy of taking over additional territory through violation of another country's sovereignty for reasons that can include defence
Expansion