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- Japanese Surrender of WWII
- Led by General MacArthur
- supervisied Political, economic, and social reconstruction of Japan 1945-1952
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- conflict between USSR and U.S.
- 1945-1991
- never engaged in direct military conflict
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- aka: Cold War
- conflict in diff. world views
- dominate over all other
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- Aka: Cold War
- rooted in diff. world views
- become dominate over all others
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- a geographic region over one country
- controls political, economic, social, and/or military decisions
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- a standing committee of nine reps.
- investigated suspected communists
- influential positions in U.S. society
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- Philosophical movement postwar Europe
- individual decision making
- one sole source of one's identity
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- a philosphy and activist movement
- seeks political, legal, and social reform
- on men and women equal
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- a system in which government provides certain public services
- such as: health care, education, unemployment ins., social security
- right of citizenship regardless of personal wealth
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- Violations of the laws of war
- Including Murder, slave labor, abuse of prisoners of war, wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages
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- planning, initiating or participating in a war of aggression
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- murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts done
- against any civilian population
- or presecutions on political racial, or religous grounds
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- U.S. influnce on the culture of another country, generally speread through consumerism and/or militarization
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- a self-rule movement based on the assertion that all Arabs are united by a common cultural, historical, linguistic heritage
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- Legitimate State in International system
- have a well defined territory w/ permanent population
- single gov't to engate in relations with other states
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A set of international agreements & rules
to promote free trade, open markets, and monetary stability |
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- Institutions created and controlled by wealthy democratic countries
- to encourage prosperity and political extremism
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