unit 6
A policy of extending a a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
What is imperialism?
ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause
What is propaganda?
war between Afghanistan and USSR. Afghanistan wins with the help of the US. Big defeat for the USSR.
What is the Soviet-Afgan war?
an economic system in which decisions on the three key economic questions are based on voluntary exchange in markets
What is the Free Market Economy?
An American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside power
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
War between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the British view, occasioned by the Qing government's refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories; the victorious British imposed the one-sided Treaty of Nanking on China
What is the Opium War?
1929. This triggered the collapse into the Great Depression.
WHat is the US Stock Market Crash?
This was a civil war between the Communist and Nationalists. The communist won out.
What is the China Communist Revolution?
An organization that manufactures and markets products in many different countries and has multinational stock ownership and multinational management
What is multinational corporation?
Political ideology that stresses people's membership in a nation-a community defined by a common culture and history as well as by territory. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, nationalism was a force for unity in western Europe
What is Nationalism?
In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence
What is the Spanish-American War?
a severe, world wide economic crisis which lasted from the end of 1929 to the outbreak of World War II.
What is the Great Depression?
The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
social movements in the U.S. where they want to end segregation and discrimination against blacks and it helps secure and protect the rights of citizens and citizenship within the laws
a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggresively to defend or promote national interests
What is militarism?
theory which suggests that at some moment all matter in the universe was contained in a single point, which is considered the beginning of the universe
What is the Big Bang Theory?
Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private enterprises. Joseph Stalin ended the N.E.P. in 1928 and replaced it with a series of Five-Year Plans.
What is the New Economic Policy?
A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States.
What is the Vietnam War?
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
What is globalization?
A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.
What is imperialism?
also known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; launched by Mao in the late 1960's; aimed to combat the capitalist tendencies he believed had penetrated even the highest ranks of the communist party itself; involved new policies to bring health care and education to the countryside and reinvigorate earlier efforts at rural industrialization under local control
What is the Cultural Revolution?
The party of Chiang Kai-shek. They ruled China from 1928 until the victory of the Communists in 1949. This party led a revolution against the emperor 1911. They also tried to establish a democracy. When they were defeated by the communists they fled to Taiwan. They still rule Taiwan today.
What is the Nationalist Party?
Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
worldwide spread of similar norms, values, and practices: Reggae, Bollywood, Social Media, BBC, World Cup, Olympics
what is cultural globalization?
A system of government characterized by strict social and economic control and a strong, centralized government usually headed by a dictator. First found in Italy by Mussolini.
What is fascism?