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Terms Defined in the Text- Chap 6.
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Occupation
Definition
  • Japanese Surrender of WWII
  • Led by General MacArthur
  • supervisied Political, economic, and social reconstruction of Japan 1945-1952
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Cold War
Definition
  • conflict between USSR and U.S.
  • 1945-1991
  • never engaged in direct military conflict
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Ideological War
Definition
  • aka: Cold War
  • conflict in diff. world views
  • dominate over all other
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Ideological War
Definition
  • Aka: Cold War
  • rooted in diff. world views
  • become dominate over all others

 

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Sphere of influence
Definition
  • a geographic region over one country
  • controls political, economic, social, and/or military decisions
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House Committee on Un-American Activities
Definition
  • a standing committee of nine reps.
  • investigated suspected communists
  • influential positions in U.S. society
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Existentialism
Definition
  • Philosophical movement postwar Europe
  • individual decision making
  • one sole source of one's identity
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Liberal feminism
Definition
  • a philosphy and activist movement
  • seeks political, legal, and social reform
  • on men and women equal
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Welfare State
Definition
  • a system in which government provides certain public services
  • such as: health care, education, unemployment ins., social security
  • right of citizenship regardless of personal wealth
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War Crimes
Definition
  • Violations of the laws of war
  • Including Murder, slave labor, abuse of prisoners of war, wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages
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Crimes against peace
Definition
  • planning, initiating or participating in a war of aggression
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Crimes against humanity
Definition
  • murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts done
  • against any civilian population
  • or presecutions on political racial, or religous grounds
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Americanization
Definition
  • U.S. influnce on the culture of another country, generally speread through consumerism and/or militarization
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Arab Nationalism
Definition
  • a self-rule movement based on the assertion that all Arabs are united by a common cultural, historical, linguistic heritage
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Recorgnized
Definition
  • Legitimate State in International system
  • have a well defined territory w/ permanent population
  • single gov't to engate in relations with other states
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Liberal Economic System
Definition

A set of international agreements & rules

to promote free trade, open markets, and monetary stability

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Bretton Woods System
Definition
  • Institutions created and controlled by wealthy democratic countries
  • to encourage prosperity and political extremism
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