APUSH Chapter 30 example #36598

In American diplomacy, the traditional belief that the United States should refrain from involvement in overseas politics, alliances, or wars, and confine its national security interst to its own borders.

The contrasting belief that America's national security requires involvement and sometimes diplomatic or military alliances overseas.

In international affairs, reliance on a group of nations or an international organization as protection against aggressors, rather than on national self-defense alone.

The organization of a nation and its armed forces for war.

The official release of a person from punishment for a crime.

A fixed allowance of food or other scarce commodity.

A person who refuses to participate in war on grounds of conscience or belief.

The radical majority faction of the Russian Socialist party that seized power in the October 1917 revolution; they later took the name Communist.

Minority rival power to the majority Bolsheviks.

A portion of a battle line that extends forward into enemy territory.

Concerning political systems in which the government is constituted from the controlling party's members in the legislative assembly

In international affairs, a weaker or smaller country held to be under the guidance or protection of a major power; the arrangement is a weaker form of imperialism or colonialism.

A territory owned outright by a more powerful nation.

A nation that holds the territory of a former colony as the conditional agent of an international body under defined terms.

Under the League of Nations, a specific commission that authorized a trustee to administer a former colonial territory.

The Wilsonian doctrine that each people should have the right to freely choose its own political affiliation and national future, e.g., independence or incorporation into another nation.

A portion of a deed, contract, or treaty that places conditions or restrictions on the general obligations.

A politician who arouses fervor by appealing to the lowest emotions of a mass audience, such as fear, hatred, and greed.