Social 20 Review Flashcards

Flashcards for Social 20 Review Units 1 & 2

Nation

A large group of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.

Identity

The characteristics that determine who or what a person or thing is; a sense of self.

Nationalism

A feeling of great love and devotion to one's nation.

State Nations within Nations – Examples- Factors of Nationalism – (What are they describe them) Expressions of Nationalism

A political entity with a defined territory, government, and population.

Age of Reason / Enlightenment

An intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century

Louis XVI

The last King of France before the French Revolution.

Absolutism

The system of government in France before the revolution.

Feudal System

A rigid social and political hierarchy.

Revolution

A process in which a political structure is overthrown and fundamentally changed.

Democracy

A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Estate General

A legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes of French subjects.

Robespierre

A French lawyer and politician, one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution.

Storming of the Bastille

A revolutionary event in Paris, when an angry mob stormed a medieval fortress, an armory, and a political prison known as the Bastille.

Tennis Court Oath

A pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The members of the French Third Estate took an oath, vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established.

Declaration of the Rights of Man

A fundamental document of the French Revolution that granted civil rights to some commoners, although it excluded a significant segment of the French population.

Collective Identity

The shared sense of belonging to a group.

Melting Pot

A monocultural society.

Multiculturalism

The presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

Cultural Pluralism

smaller groups within a larger society are able to maintain their unique cultural identities

First Nations Nationalism

The sense of national identity for the First Nations

Contending Loyalties

Loyalties that compete.

Nationalist Loyalties

Devotion or loyalty to one's own nation.

Charter of Rights and Freedoms

A bill of rights enshrined in the Constitution of Canada.

Self Determination

The process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government.

Sovereignty

Supreme power or authority.

Nation-State

A Sovereign nation or state.

National Interests

Advancing the best interests of their own nation.

Foreign Policy

Relates to other countries.

Domestic Policy

Deals with issues inside the country.

Treaty of Versailles

The peace treaty that officially ended World War I.

The Big Three

Leaders of the allied powers during World War I (United States, Great Britain & France).

Ottoman Empire

A historical empire that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa.

GDP

The total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.

Total War

A war in which a nation devotes all of its resources to the war effort.

Ultrananationalism

An extreme form of nationalism.

Propaganda

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

Indoctrination

The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

Expansionism

A policy or practice of expansion and especially territorial expansion by a nation.

Appeasement

The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war.

Isolationism

A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of foreign countries.

Conscription

Compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.

Internment

The state of being imprisoned or confined.

Crimes Against Humanity

Acts committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population.

Genocide

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

War Crimes

Violations of the laws and customs of war.

Blitzkrieg

An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.

Lebensraum

The territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany.

Sudetenland

A region in Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by German speakers; annexed by Nazi Germany.

Holocaust

The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–45.

Ethnic Cleansing

The systematic forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, often with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.

State Sponsored Crimes

Acts that constitute human rights violations that are instigated, directed, or condoned by governments or state actors.

Rwandan Genocide

A genocidal mass slaughter in Rwanda in 1994, in which members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu, were killed by armed militias.

Decolonization

The undoing of colonialism, where nations establish and maintain its domination over dependent territories

Successor States

A state that is created from a previous state.

Refugee

A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.