Final Exam - Vocab Flashcards
The words that weren't in our vocab
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| 175698561 | Militarism | A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war. | 0 | |
| 175698562 | Mandate System | The mandate system of the League of Nations, established by the treaties ending World War I. Under this system, the victors of World War I were given responsibility for governing former German and Ottoman territories as mandates from the League. The ultimate goal was development of each mandate toward eventual independence. | 1 | |
| 175698563 | Marshall Plan | A U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II | 2 | |
| 175698564 | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) | a series of meetings in the 1970s, in which leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to limit their nations' stocks of nuclear weapons. | 3 | |
| 175698565 | Tiananmen Square | A huge public space in Beijing, China; in 1989, the site of a student uprising in support of democratic reforms. | 4 | |
| 175698566 | Pan-Africanism | A movement which seeks to unify African people into a "one African community". The largest governmental body striving for governmental unity is the African Union. | 5 | |
| 175698567 | Pan-Arabism | An ideology espousing the unification of the peoples and countries of the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea. It is closely connected to Arab nationalism, which asserts that the Arabs constitute a single nation. | 6 | |
| 175698568 | World Trade Organization (WTO) | An international organization begun in 1995 to promote and organize world trade. | 7 |