25-26 MC test

• Socialism

  Economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership
• Fascism

  Far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived
• Communism

  A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
• Capitalism

  An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
• Republicanism

  Support for a republican system of government
• Warsaw Pact

  Soviet military alliance (Soviet version of NATO). Shows the bipolarity in the Cold War
• Lech Walesa


  Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. Believes widely in Polish solidarity, independence, and self-determination
• Korean War


  Fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. It began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased after an armistice on 27 July 1953. The north was supported by China and the Soviet Union while the south was supported by United Nations (UN) forces led by the United States
• Containment


  The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits
• 38th parallel


  Line splitting North and South Korea
• Brinkmanship


  The art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics
• Division of Korea


  The division of Korea began on August 15, 1945 when the official announcement of the surrender of Japan was released, thus ending the Pacific Theater of World War II. During the war, the Allied leaders had already been considering the question of Korea's future following Japan's eventual surrender in the war
• Territorialism


  Physical division of states, keeping the people in and the people out