Unit 8 Vocab Quiz

The belief in or practice of trying to make social or political changes through active, sometimes militant, involvement, especially in particular issues.

• Activism
• Protestor

• Activist

• Protest

A policy of racial segregation, especially the segregation of blacks & whites & the discrimination against blacks in the Republic of South Africa.

• Discrimination
• Segregation
• Apartheid
• Ideological

A government policy, enacted in a variety of ways, that is intended to curb the territorial growth, economic expansion, or ideological influence of a hostile nation.

• Activism

• Isolationism
• Nationalize

• Containment

The sudden & forceful attempt of a group, especially of military or other government personnel, to seize state power.

• Coup

• Apartheid

• Activism

• Partition

The process or act of freeing a colony or eliminating colonialism.

• Colonization
• Decolonization
• Imperialism
• Nationalism

The condition of relying on another for help or support.

• Independence
• Ideological

• Autonomy
• Dependence

One who disagrees with, dissents from, or opposes.

• Protest

• Dissident

• Advocate
• Activist

Of or concerning basic beliefs, concepts & social & political aims of an individual, group or institution.

• Union

• Apartheid

• Intervention

• Ideological

The act of entering a situation so as to change what is happening by one nation in the affairs of another, as with military force.

• Coup

• Partition

• Dependency

• Intervention

A group that differs in race, ethnic background, religion or political ideas from the majority of people in a society.

• Minority group
• Political faction
• Cultural group
• Majority group