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Foreign Policy Definitions
words and definitions descrbing the United States and imperalism in the early 1900s
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01/17/2010

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Alliance
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Formal agreement between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes
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Captialism
Definition
An economic an political system; free markets for goods and sources, private control of production and consumption
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Colony
Definition
The settlement of a group of immigrants in a distant territory who remain subject to the parent country
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Communism
Definition
In theory, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals
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Democracy
Definition
Government by the people exercised either directly by the people or through elected representatives
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Domstic Policy
Definition
A country's course of action, by government, in relation to that nations internal interest and priorities
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Expansionism
Definition
A practice or policy of a country's territorial or economic expansion/stretching its control
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Fascism
Definition
market by centralization of authority under a director; policy of belligerant nationalism and racism
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Foreign Policy
Definition
A country's course of action, by gov't, in its interaction with other countries
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Imperialism
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The policy of extending authority by territorial acquisition or by the expansion...
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Interventionism
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The policy of intervening/interfering in the offices of another sovereign state
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Isolationism
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a nation's policy of abstaining from political or economic relations w/ other countries
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Protectorate
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A relationship of protection and partial control assumed by a superior power over a dependent country
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Socialism
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Some means of producing and distributing are owned collectively or by a centralized government that controls economy
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Territory
Definition
A subdivision of the United States that is not a state and is administered by a government and legislation
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Totalitarianism
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The political authority exercises absolute and centralized authority over all aspects of life (political, social, economic, the individual is subordinate to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is supressed
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