Unit 4.2 Terms and Ideas
Completion requirements
4.2 Ideas and Terms
Is resistance to liberalism justified?
Big Ideas:
- Appreciate how citizens and citizenship are affected by the promotion of ideological principles.
- Appreciate how citizens and groups may adhere to various ideologies.
- Analyze ideological systems that rejected liberalism.
- Examine how ideological conflict shaped international relations after World War II.
- Examine perspectives on the imposition (forced acceptance) of liberalism.
- Examine the extent to which modern liberalism is challenged by alternative ideas.
- Evaluate the extent to which resistance to liberalism is justified.
Following is a list of new terms you will encounter in this unit. Click on each for its definition.
- abdicate
- alternative thought
- assimilation
- authoritarianism
- balance of power
- bourgeoisie
- brinkmanship
- centrally-planned economy
- civil disobedience
- Cold War
- collective security
- collectivization
- containment
- détente
- deterrence
- dictator
- dictatorship
- diplomacy
- dissent
- elitism
- enfranchisement
- environmentalism
- expansionism
- extremism
- fascism
- Leninism
- nationalization
- Nazism
- non-alignment
- proletariat
- provisional government
- reparation
- sanctions
- self-government
- social Darwinism
- sphere of influence
- Stalinism
- superpower
- totalitarianism
*You can also click on the Glossary in the menu bar above this window at any time to find definitions. Throughout the course, terms are identified by their red font; click on them to see their definitions.
