100 word vocab 11-14-07
Mr.Casey's 100 word vocab test
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- Nuclear Proliferation
- The spread of nuclear weapons to new nations
- Confederacy
- A loose union of independent states; name of govermment used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
- Flexible Response
- The buildup of conventional troops and weapons to allow a nation to fight a limited war without using nuclear weapsons
- Facism
- A political system headed be a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and has no tolerance for opposition
- Bilingualism
- The practice of teaching immigrant students in thier own language
- Brinkmanship
- The willingness to go to the brink of war to force an apponent to back down
- Insurrection
- An act of rebellion against the established government
- Political Machine
- An organization linked to a political patry that often controlled local govermment
- Containment
- The policy designed to keep the Soviet Union from expending its power
- Imperialism
- The actions used by one nation to exercise political or economic control over smaller or weaker nations
- Amnesty
- The act of granting pardon to a large group of people
- Isolationism
- The avoidance of involovment in world affairs
- Nulilfication
- The failure or refusal of a U.S. state to aid in the enforcement of federal laws within its state limits.
- Liberal
- Aperson who generally believes the goverment should take an active role in the economy and in social programs but that the govermment should not dictate social behavior
- Detente
- Relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivils, the Soviet Union and China