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Chapter Five
Roskin/Berry CH. 5
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International Studies
Undergraduate 3
07/10/2015

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Appeasement
Definition
A concession to satisfy a hostile country; in disrepute since Hitler
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Atmospherics
Definition
Public relations of diplomatic meetings, superficial and fleeting
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Balkans
Definition
Easternmost Mediterranean peninsula
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Brest-Litovsk
Definition
The 1918 treaty dictated by Germany to get Russia out of World War I
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Central Europe
Definition
That part of Europe between Germany and Russia
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Cold War
Definition
Period of armed tension between Soviet Union and West, roughly 1947 to 1989
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Comintern
Definition
Short for Communist International; the world’s Communist parties under Moscow’s control
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Detente
Definition
Relaxation of tensions between hostile countries
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Elites
Definition
The top or most influential people
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Five-Year Plans
Definition
Stalin’s forced industrialization in the 1930s
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Geopolitics
Definition
The impact of geography on international politics
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Glasnost
Definition
Policy of media openness under Gorbachev
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Hegemony
Definition
Leading or dominating other countries
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Ideology
Definition
Belief system that society can be improved by following certain doctrines; usually ends in -ism
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Imperial Overstretch
Definition
Theory that powerful nations tend to over-expand and weaken
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Inputs
Definition
The ingredients of economic growth, labor, capital, raw materials, energy
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KGB
Definition
Soviet intelligence and security police
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Kleptocracy
Definition
Rule by thieves
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Lebensraum
Definition
German for “living space”; theory that countries must expand to gain room for their population
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Legitimacy
Definition
Citizens’ feeling that government’s rule is rightful
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Masses
Definition
The bulk of the population with little interest or influence
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Mobilization
Definition
Getting an army ready for immediate war
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Mongols
Definition
Thirteenth-century conquerors of Eurasia
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Nonaggression Pact
Definition
Treaty to not attack each other
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Paranoid
Definition
Unreasonably suspicious of others
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Perestroika
Definition
Gorbachev’s wish to restructure the Soviet economy
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Pragmatism
Definition
If it works, use it
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Privatization
Definition
The selling of state-owned assets to private interests
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Productivity
Definition
How efficiently goods are produced—that is, using fewer inputs
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Republic
Definition
Main Soviet/Russian civil division, like a U.S. state.
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Satellite
Definition
Communist country set up by and dependent on Soviet Union
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Siloviki
Definition
Russian for strong men
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Socialism
Definition
State ownership of economy to end class differences
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Spanish Civil War
Definition
The 1936-1939 conflict in which Nazis and Communists aided opposite sides
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Tatars
Definition
Descendants of the Mongols
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Worst-Casing
Definition
Tendency to see the enemy as stronger than it is
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Yalta
Definition
Early 1945 agreement by Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt on who got what in Germany and East Europe
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