Module 4 Lessons 1 and 2 Vocabulary

a nation's plan for interacting with other countries of the world

• foreign policy

• diplomacy

• human rights

• United Nations

assistance to people in distress

• common good

• diplomacy

• human rights

• humanitarian aid

a form of government in which the people elect the leaders and rule by majority

• totalitarian government

• democracy

• dictatorship

• communism

written plan of government that outlines its purposes, powers, and limitations

• diplomacy

• limited government

• constitution

• sovereign nation

government that has legal limits on its power

• limited government

• totalitarian government

• unlimited government

• United Nations

government having complete authority over a geographic area

• national interest

• United Nations

• sovereign nation

• constitution

welfare of the community

• borders

• human rights

• democracy

• common good

process of conducting relations between countries

• human rights

• national interest

• diplomacy

• constitution

a country's political boundaries

• constitution

• humanitarian aid

• borders

• foreign policy

government in which power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader or small group

• unlimited government

• limited government

• direct democracy

• representative democracy