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What is Nationalism?
This is a conscious bond shared by a group of people who feel strongly attached to a particular land and who possess a common language, culture, and history marked by shared glories and sufferings.
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What is Total War?
This doctrine, which defined WWII, entails warfare that includes any and all civilian resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets and mobilizes all of the resources of society to fight the war.
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What is Containment?
This American policy entailed stopping the geographical expansion of Soviet power.
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What is the Velvet Revolution?
This event was a non-violent transition of power from the Communist leaders to a democratic government led by Vaclav Havel in Czechoslovakia in 1989.
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What is the Industrial Revolution?
This period marked a shift from an agrarian, local, labor-intensive economy to one dominated by machine manufacture, specialization of tasks, factories and cities, and a worldwide market.
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What is the Third World?
This political coalition was made up of nations who were not aligned with either the Soviet Union or the United States.
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What is the Vichy Government?
This government controlled Free France after the 3rd Republic had fallen and collaborated heavily with the Germans, particularly with regard to deportation of Jews.
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Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This Soviet leader made a “Secret Speech” to the 20th Party Congress in 1956 denouncing the crimes of Stalin.
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What is the Prague Spring?
During this period, which occurred in Czechoslovakia in 1968, a new group of Czech communists tried to implement “socialism with a human face”, but were stopped when Soviet troops invaded and occupied the country.
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What is Absolutism?
This was a process of centralization that occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries, which put unlimited authority in the hands of the monarch and extended the reach of state power to the lives of subjects.
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Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This Vietnamese leader created the Indochinese (Vietnamese) Communist Party in 1929 and led the movement that successfully overthrew French colonial rule.
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What is the Mandate System?
This system, implemented after WWI, put German colonies and Ottoman lands under the rule of Allied powers, who were to be supervised by the League of Nations. It was seen as a compromise between traditional imperialism and Wilsonian idealism
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What is the Brezhnev Doctrine?
This policy said that the Soviet Union had the right to use military force to maintain the strict rule of the Communist Party in nearby socialist countries.
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What is the European Community (EC)?
This organization was created in 1967 by the same original members as the European Coal and Steel Community. Britain joined the organization later, in 1973.
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What is the Catholic/Counter Reformation?
This is a deep process of reform that the Catholic Church undertook in response to the Protestant Reformation.
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What is Indirect Rule?
This type of imperial rule integrated local elites and native institutions into the administration of the colonial government. The day-to-day government and administration of areas was left in the hands of traditional rulers.
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What is the Bretton Woods Conference?
This conference, held in 1944, was arranged in order to avoid dangerous inflation and led to the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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What are the Helsinki Accords?
This agreement, signed in 1975, gave international recognition to post-WWII boundaries and bound signatories, including the Soviet Union, to respect human rights.
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What is The Second Sex?
This text, written in 1949 by Simone de Beauvoir, became a handbook of the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Who is John Locke?
This is a philosopher who linked the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment by claiming that philosophy was also a discipline that should be subject to the rigors of the scientific method.
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Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
This Italian nationalist led a successful invasion of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, then turned over his conquests to King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont in the name of Italian unification.
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What is the Triple Entente?
This alliance, created before WWI, was made up of France, Great Britain, and Russia, who were united by their fear of Germany’s growing diplomatic power and navy.
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What is Perestroika?
This reform, implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev, entailed a fundamental restructuring of the Soviet system to make it more efficient and responsive to the needs of Soviet citizens.
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What is Existentialism?
This is a radical individualist philosophy that centered on moral responsibility and was closely associated with the works of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This French revolutionary, who took power in the Committee of Public Safety in 1793, used the guillotine to maintain control and implement the values of the Revolution.
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