International Relationships woz

Appeasement

Diplomatic policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions (Let them do or have something) to an aggressive power to avoid conflict.

Economic Integration

An agreement among nations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers and agree on fiscal policies.

Entente

A friendly understanding or informal alliance between states or factions

Fascism

Far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Japan’s attempt to form an economic and military block consisting of nations within East and Southeast Asia against Western colonization and manipulation, but it failed because of Japan’s inability to promote true mutual prosperity within the alliance.

Imperialism

The practice, theory, or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing not only hard power, but also soft power

Liberal Ideology

A political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

Louisiana Purchase

Acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River’s drainage basin west of the river.

Manifest Destiny

A cultural belief in the 19th-centure United States that American Settlers were destined to expand across North America.

Mexican-American War

Invasion of Mexico by the United States Arm from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory.

Militarism

The belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand nation interests and/or values.

Monroe Doctrine

United States foreign policy position tat opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States.

Nationalism

An idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of aiming and maintaining the nation’s sovereignty over its perceived homeland to create a nation-state.

Pressure Groups

Influences public policy in the interest of a particular cause. Attempts to influence government policies through protests and demonstrations.

Slav

Member of a group of peoples in central and eastern Europe speaking Slavic languages.

Socialism

Political philosophy and movement encompassing a wide range of economic and social systems which are characterized by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

Social Darwinism

Theory that individuals, groups, and people are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals.

Social Imperialism

Political Ideology of people, parties, or nations that are, according to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, “socialist in words, imperialist in deeds”. Refers to governments that take control in an attempt to preserve the domestic social peace of their own countries. They use colonization as a way to distract and control the people of the state.

Spanish-American War

The aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to the United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.

Tanzimat

Name given to the series of Ottoman reforms promulgated during the reigns of Mahmud’s sons Abdulmecid I and Abdulaziz.

Trade Monopoly

Refers to a situation where a single entity or a group of entities have exclusive control over the trade of a particular good or service within a specific market or territory.

Weltpolitik

Imperialist foreign policy adopted by the German Empire during the reign of Emperor Wilhelm II. The aim of the policy was to transform Germany into a global power.