Global & U.S. History

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically.

• Imperialism

• Isolationism

• Meiji Restoration

• Industrial Revolution

The power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II

• Russian Revolution

• French Revolution

• World War II

• Cold War

A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason as the method to solve political and social problems.

• Scientific Revolution

• French Revolution

• Enlightenment

• Industrial Revolution

Hands off approach to government; the government should not interfere in the economy

• Laissez-faire economics

• Communism

• Socialism

• Traditional economy

South African policy of racial segregation involving political and economic discrimination against non-whites.

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

• Nuremburg Laws

• Apartheid

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

• Communism

• Laissez-faire economics

• Utopianism

• Utilitarianism

A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production.

• Socialism

• Laissez-faire economics

• Traditional economy

• Utilitarianism

Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.

• Treaty of Nanjing

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of Paris

The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation

• Meiji Restoration

• Industrial Revolution

• Russian Revolution

• Green Revolution

A Cold War alliance made between the nations of the US, Canada and Western Europe to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country.

• NAFTA

• NATO

• SEATO

• Warsaw Pact