Chapter 1,4,5 Vocab

Question 0

Balance of power

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Theories that states form alliances to offset threatening states

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Absolutism

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Renaissance pattern of kings assuming all power.

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Bipolar

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The world divided into two power centers as in the Cold War

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Bismarckian

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Converted unstable balance of power from 1870 to 1914

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Chimera

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Mythical beast composed of several unlike parts

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Domestic politics

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Interactions within countries

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Duopoly

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Two big powers dominate

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Force

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Application of military power

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Globalization

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World turning into one big capitalist market

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Hierarchy of power

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Theory that peace is preserved when states know where they stand on the latter of relative power

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International anarchy

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No overriding power presents sovereign states from conflicting

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International relations

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Interactions among countries

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Interwar

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Between world wars 1&2 1919–1939

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Metternichian

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Conservative restoration of balance of power after Napoleon

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Multipolar

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The world divided into many power centers

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Power

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Ability of one actor to get another to do it’s bidding

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Reification

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Mistaking a theory for reality

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Sovereignty

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Concept that each state rules its territory without interference

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State

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County or nation, has sovereignty

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Stratified

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Power distributed in layers

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Strong state

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Modern nation – state able to enforce sovereignty

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Superpower

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nation was for more power than all others; able to wage all levels of warfare

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Supranational

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Power above the national level, as the UN

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Unipolar

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The world dominated by one power center

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Versailles Treaty

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The 1919 treaty that ended World War I

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Westphalian

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System set up by 1648 Peace of Westphalia that made sovereignty the norm

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Atlantic charter

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The 1941 Roosevelt – Churchhill agreement on peace aims and basis of the UN

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Bluff

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Not supporting a declared national interest with sufficient power

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Containment

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US policy of blocking expansion Soviet power, framed by Kennan in 1947

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Continent

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The European mainland

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Crown

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Powers of the British government

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Feasibility

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Able to prevail without excessive force or cost

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Globalism

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US insert extending everywhere

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Imperialism

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Spreading nations power over other lands

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Isolationism

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US avoidance of overseas involvement

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Joint congregational resolution

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Passed by both houses, it has force of law; can allow present to go to war

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Just war

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Doctrine of medieval Catholic philosophers that war under certain conditions can be moral

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Lend lease

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US aid to allies in World War II

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Manifest destiny

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Slogan calling for the US continental republic

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Marshall plan

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1947 call for massive U.S. Aid to war-torn Europe

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McCarthyism

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Sen. Joseph McCarthy's early 1950s accusations of treason in high places

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Objective

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Can be empirically verified

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Political generations

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The memory have a great events imprinted on the young people who have lived through them

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Strategy

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And, ways, means

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Subjective

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Cannot be in perfectly verified; depends on feelings

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Tonkin Golf Resolution

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The 1964 Congressional permission for president to go to war in Vietnam

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Truman doctrine

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The 1947 presidential call to aid to countries under communist threat

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Vietcong

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Informal name of communist lead South Vietnamese national liberation front in 1960s

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Veitminh

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Communist Vietnamese and anti-French liberation movement in the 1940s and 1950s led by Ho Chi Minh

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Wilsonian

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Idealistic projection of the US power to create a peaceful world

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Appeasement

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A concession to satisfy a hostile country; in disrepute since Hitler

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Atmospherics

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Public relations of diplomatic meetings, superficial and fleeting

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Balkans

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Easternmost Mediterranean peninsula

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Brest-Litovsk

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The 1918 treaty dedicated by Germany to Russia out of World War I

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Central Europe

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The part of Europe between Germany and Russia

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Cold War

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Period of armed tension between Soviet union and West roughly 1947 to 1989

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Comintern

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Short for communist international; the worlds communist parties under Moscow's control

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Détente

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Relaxation of tensions between hostile countries

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Elites

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The top or the most influential people

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Five – your plans

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Stalins forced industrialization in the 1930s

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Geopolitics

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The impact on geography on international politics

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Glasnost

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Policy of media openness under Gorbachev

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Hegemony

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Leading or dominating other countries