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