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- 4. The belief that if one nation in Southeast Asia fell to Communism, the rest would soon follow
- 6. The middle class; in Marxism, the capitalist class who own most of society’s wealth and means of production
- 7. The Soviets claimed they were surrounded by hostile nations following World War II. In an attempt to protect themselves they created an “___'' (border barriers, and the Berlin Wall) to separate the nations of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union from the West.
- 10. Act of genocide by the Nazis during World War II in which more than six million Jews and five million others died
- 12. Global economic downturn that began in 1929
- 13. Granting concessions to a potential aggressor in order to avoid a conflict.
- 15. Policy introduced into the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev allowing for a greater “openness” in Soviet society
- 17. Term for autocratic rule of Russia; Russian word for Caesar, also spelled tsar
- 18. Term for autocratic rule of Russia; Russian word for Caesar, also spelled tsar
- 20. The transformation from traditional, rural, agrarian society to a secular, urban, industrial society
- 21. Name given to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea as a result of their successful and aggressive economic growth.
- 22. After World War I, a territory that was administered by a foreign power
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- 1. A foreign policy during the Cold War period in which developing nations did not take sides with either the United States or the Soviet Union.
- 2. Policy of mass murder carried out against racial, ethnic or religious group. An example of genocide was the extermination of European Jews by the Nazis.
- 3. old War policy that involved limiting communism to areas already under Soviet control
- 5. World War I alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire (later joined by Bulgaria)
- 8. the belief that each ethnic group or “nationality” is entitled to its own government and national homeland.
- 9. Lightning war; military strategy employed by Germany in World War II.
- 11. The belief that the state is supreme, that an absolute leader expressed the needs of the state, and that citizens should make sacrifices for the state.
- 14. Belief that the culture of other peoples is inferior to one’s own culture.
- 16. A conflict that developed after World War II between Communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western nations led by the United States.
- 19. The former policy of the Republic of South Africa that legalized racial segregation (separation of the races) and oppression of South African Blacks.