SS30-2 Diploma Exam Review: All Topics #2

2. Asian nation where the US's attempts at containing communism resulted in a military loss for the superpower
6. British liberal thinker who believed in natural rights to life, liberty and property
7. Concept that government power should be divided between legislative, executive and judicial branches
10. an extreme right-wing ideology that promotes ultranationalism, dictatorship and imperialism
11. the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
13. the term for a proposed law
15. this term describes government policy that controls spending and taxation.
17. Ronald Reagan was a big fan of this kind of economics which he said would see tax breaks for the rich eventually end up benefiting everyone in the economy.
19. this communist collective security alliance was named after the Polish capital
20. the idea that monarchs were chosen by God to rule

1. French word to describe reduction of international tensions
3. term for thinkers during the Enlightenment
4. US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
5. in the US, the president can use this special power to kill any bill passed by less then 2/3 of the members of the legislative branch
8. the concept of absorbing one culture into another so that the first one ceases to exist
9. The upper house in a bicameral Canadian legislature
12. this US program resulted in billions of US dollars flooding in the post-war Europe to ensure that Europeans would not fall under the sway of communism.
14. this theory held that if both sides could not survive a nuclear war, no one would dare start one
16. in the parliamentary system, a government that has the most, but less than half of, the seats in the legislature
18. wealthy farmers whose land was confiscated by the Soviets under Stalin’s collectivization program