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| 345177619 | Asean | the Association for the Southeast Asian Nations formed in 1967 to promote the prosperity and political stability of its member nations. Currently Brunei, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam are members. Other countries in the region participate as observer members | 0 | |
| 345177620 | Brezhnev Doctrine | the doctrine, enunciated by Leonid Brezhnev, that the Soviet Union had a right to intervene if socialism was threatened in another socialist state; used to justify the use of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia in 1968 | 1 | |
| 345177621 | Cold War | the ideological conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War 2. | 2 | |
| 345177622 | Collective Security | the use of an international army raised by an association of nations to deter aggression and to keep the peace | 3 | |
| 345177623 | COMECON | Council of Mutual Economic Assistance was formed by Eastern European states for economic cooperation | 4 | |
| 345177624 | Consumer Society | a term applied to Western Society after World War 2 as the working classes adopted the consumption patterns of the middle class and installment plans, credit cards, and easy credit made consumer goods such as appliances and automobiles widely available | 5 | |
| 345177625 | Detente | the relaxation of tension between the Soviet Union and the United States that occurred in the 1970s | 6 | |
| 345177626 | Marshall Plan | the European Recovery Program, under which the United States provided financial aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War 2 | 7 | |
| 345177627 | Mutual Deterrence | the belief that nuclear war could best be prevented if both the United States and the Soviet Union had sufficient nuclear weapons so that even if one nation launched a preemptive first strike, the other could respond and devastate the attacker | 8 | |
| 345177628 | NATO | the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a military alliance formed in 1949 in which the signatories (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States) agreed to provide mutual assistance if any one of them was attacked; later expanded to include other nations, including former member of the Warsaw Pact-Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary | 9 | |
| 345177629 | Truman Doctrine | the doctrine, enunciated by Harry Truman in 1947, that the United States would provide economic aid to countries that said they were threatened by Communist expansion | 10 | |
| 345177630 | Vietnminh | multiparty nationalist alliance in Vietnam that fought for Vietnamese independence against the French and United States | 11 | |
| 345177631 | Warsaw Pact | a military alliance, formed in 1955, in which Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union agreed to provide mutual assistance. Dissolved in 1991, some former members joined NATO | 12 | |
| 345379410 | "Capitalist Roaders" | accusation labeled against perceived enemies of the revolution during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | 13 | |
| 345379411 | Destalinization | the policy of denouncing and undoing the most repressive aspects of Stalin's regime; begun by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 | 14 | |
| 345379412 | Dictatorship of the Proletariat | Marxist concept, by Stalin's time it had come to represent the total legitimacy of party leadership | 15 | |
| 345379413 | Four Modernizations | Policy Deng Xiaoping-industry, agriculture, technology, national defense | 16 | |
| 345379414 | Glasnost | openness, Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of encouraging Soviet citizens to openly discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet Union | 17 | |
| 345379415 | Great Leap Forward | radical economic program instituted in China in 1948 by Mao to create vast people's communes; this was a disaster and led to starvation and crisis | 18 | |
| 345379416 | Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | Mao's attempt in the 1960's to eliminate rival elements in Chinese society and reinvigorate the revolution | 19 | |
| 345379417 | Little Red Book | collected sayings of Mao, popular during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | 20 | |
| 345379418 | New Democracy | moderate economic program instituted in China in 1949 to stimulate economic recovery; it was roughly patterned after Lenin's New Economic Policy | 21 | |
| 345379419 | Perestroika | restructuring. A term applied to Mikhail Gorbachev's economic, political, and social reforms in the Soviet Union | 22 | |
| 345379420 | Prague Spring | reform period of relaxed restrictions on freedom of speech and press in Czechoslovakia that created a feeling of euphoria among intellectuals; it was brutally crushed by force in 1968 | 23 | |
| 345379421 | Rural Responsibility System | collectives leased land to peasant families during Deng Xiaoping's reforms | 24 | |
| 345379422 | Socialism | an ideology that calls for collective or government ownership of the means of production and the distribution of goods | 25 | |
| 345379423 | Uninterrupted Revolution | Mao' idea for reinvigorating China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | 26 | |
| 345379424 | Cartel | a combination of independent commercial enterprises that work together to control prices and limit competition | 27 | |
| 345379425 | Civil Rights | the basic rights of citizens including equality before the law, freedom of speech and press, and freedom from arbitrary | 28 | |
| 345379426 | Conservatism | an ideology based on tradition and social stability that favored the maintenance of established institutions, organized religion, and obedience to authority and resisted change, especially abrupt change | 29 | |
| 345379427 | Cosmopolitanism | the quality of being sophisticated and having wide international experience | 30 | |
| 345379428 | Cultural Relativism | the belief that no culture is superior to another because culture is a matter of custom, not reason, and derives its meaning from the group holding it | 31 | |
| 345379429 | Decolonization | the process of becoming free of colonial status and achieving statehood; occurred in most of the world's colonies between 1947 and 1962. | 32 | |
| 345379430 | Depression | a very severe, protracted economic downturn with high levels of unemployment. | 33 | |
| 345379431 | Domino Theory | the belief that if the Communists _succeeded in Vietnam, other countries in Southeast and East Asia would also fall (like dominoes) to communism; a justification for the U.S. intervention in _Vietnam. | 34 | |
| 345379432 | Ethnic Cleansing | the policy of killing or forcibly removing people of another ethnic group; used by the Serbs against Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s | 35 | |
| 345379433 | European Economic Community | also known as the Common Market was founded in 1957 to eliminate customs barriers and promote free trade among the member nations of western Europe | 36 | |
| 345379434 | Feminism | the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes; also, organized activity to advance women's rights. | 37 | |
| 345379435 | Free Trade | the unrestricted international exchange of goods with low or no tariffs. | 38 | |
| 345379436 | Individualism | ... | 39 | |
| 345379437 | Inflation | a sustained rise in the price level. | 40 | |
| 345379438 | Liberalism | an ideology based on the belief that people should be as free from restraint as possible. Economic liberalism is the idea that the government should not interfere in the workings of the economy. Political liberalism is the idea that there should be restraints on the exercise of power so that people can enjoy basic civil rights in a constitutional state with a representative assembly. | 41 | |
| 345379439 | Mass Education | state-run educational system, usually free and compulsory, that aims to ensure that all children in society have at least a basic education. | 42 | |
| 345379440 | Mass Politics | a political order characterized by mass political parties and universal male and (eventually) female suffrage. | 43 | |
| 345379441 | Materialism | the belief that everything mental, spiritual, or ideal is an outgrowth of physical forces and that truth is found in concrete material existence, not through feeling or intuition. | 44 | |
| 345379442 | Permissive Society | a term applied to Western society after World War II to reflect the new sexual freedom and the emergence of a drug culture. | 45 | |
| 345379443 | Political Democracy | a form of government characterized by universal suffrage and mass political parties | 46 | |
| 345379444 | Popular Culture | as opposed to high culture, the unofficial, written and unwritten culture of the masses, much of which was passed down orally; centers on public and group activities such as festivals. In the twentieth century, refers to the entertainment, recreation, and pleasures that people purchase as part of mass consumer society. | 47 | |
| 345379445 | Real Wage/Income/Prices | wages/income/prices that have been adjusted for inflation | 48 | |
| 345379446 | Secularization | the process of becoming more concerned with material, worldly, temporal things and less with spiritual and religious things | 49 | |
| 345379447 | Tariffs | duties (taxes) imposed on imported goods; usually imposed both to raise revenue and to discourage imports and protect domestic industries | 50 | |
| 345379448 | Trade Union | an association of workers in the same trade, formed to help members secure better wages, benefits, and working conditions. | 51 |
