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Comparative Government
100
This is a tax that is laid in proportion to a person’s income. (the more money you make, the higher a percentage you pay)
What is a progressive tax?
100
These are a nation’s relationships with other countries.
What are Foreign Affairs?
100
These are agreements among nations to act together to meet any attack against any member.
What is a Regional Security Alliance?
100
This is a a political and economic system in which the state has complete control of the economy.
What is Communism?
100
This is the change from a dictator to a democracy.
What is democratization?
200
This is a levy imposed on the assets or estate of a person who dies.
What is an estate tax?
200
This is a refusal to be involved in the affairs of other countries.
What is Isolationism?
200
NATO stands for this.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
200
This is a person appointed by a person to represent the United States in a foreign country.
What is an Ambassador?
200
This is a country that does not have government control.
What is a failed state?
300
You get this when you collect more taxes than you need.
What is a surplus?
300
This was a period of forty years in which the United States and the Soviet Union were unfriendly to each other.
What was the Cold War?
300
This is the principle that calls countries to act together to promote peace and security.
What is Collective Security?
300
This was a period in the 18th century that brought new ideas to the world, mostly pertaining to religion, governance, arts, and science.
What is Enlightenment?
300
This is a temporary union of parties.
What is a coalition?
400
This is a benefit that federal law says must be paid to all who meet requirements.
What is an entitlement?
400
This is a relaxation of tensions between two countries.
What is Detente?
400
This is a fifteen-member panel that has the major responsibility of keeping international peace for the United Nations
What is the UN Security Council?
400
This is a political system based on a strong racist government.
What is Fascism?
400
This is a government in which the executive and legislative branches are one in the same.
What is a parliamentary government?
500
This is an emergency-spending bill that allows agencies to continue operating under the previous years budget.
What is a continuing resolution?
500
These countries were known as the "Big Three" during the second World War.
What were the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union?
500
These are the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
What is the United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, and France?
500
This is a group or leader that fights to keep authoritarian governments the same.
What is a Hard-Liner?
500
This Latin American country experienced one party rule from the 1920's until the year 2000 when Vicente Fox was elected president from the PRI.
What is Mexico?