TERM 1
United Nations
DEFINITION 1
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization
whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in
international law, international security, economic
development, social progress, human rights, and
achievement of world peace.
TERM 2
Decolonization
DEFINITION 2
Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the
unequal relation of polities whereby one people or nation
establishes and maintains dependent territory or government
TERM 3
Socialism
DEFINITION 3
Socialism is an economic and political theory advocating
public or common ownership and cooperative management
of the means of production and allocation of resources.
Economic equality adovcates for people to own capitol, land
and products. Example: Mao Zedon's Cultural Revolution.
TERM 4
Isolationism
DEFINITION 4
Isolationism is a foreign policy adopted by a nation in which the
country refuses to enter into any alli ances, foreign trade or
economic commitments, or interna tional agreements in hopes of
focusing all of its resources into advan cement within its own
borders while remaining at peace wit h foreign countries by
avoiding all entanglements of foreign agreements. Example:
Woodrow Wilson kept the US out of W WI in the begining to thelp
save the economy, but later left the isolationism and enter the
war.
TERM 5
NATO
DEFINITION 5
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO, is an
intergovernmental military alliance based on the North
Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The
organization constitutes a system of collective defence
whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in
response to an attack by any external party.
