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| islolatioism | American foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s where we tried to stay out of foreign affairs to avoid entering into another world war. |
| reparations | payments for war damages. Germany was forced to pay reparations after WWI and it contributed to the ruin of her economy in the early 1920s. |
| laissez-faire economics | belief that the government should keep its hands off the economy and not regulate business. |
| margin buying | the purchase of stocks with credit. This practice is believed to have contributed to the stock market crash in 1929 and helped bring on the Great Depression. |
| Relief,Recovery, Reform | the three goals of the New Deal. Relief was to relieve the suffering of the unemployed, hungry and homeless; Recovery was to turn the economy around, and reform was to make changes to prevent future depressions. |
| Fascism/Nazism | the political of philosophies of Italy and Germany prior to and during WWII. They were characterized by a single political party, expansion, and supernationalism. Nazism also included anti-Semitism. |
| anti-Semitism | the hatred of the Jewish people. This was a part of Hitler's Nazi philosophies. |
| appeasement | giving someone what he wants to avoid trouble, for example, when Britain and France gave into Hitler's demand for the Sudetenland to avoid war. |
| unconditional surrender | Allied demand during WWII set forth by FDR and Churchill where they refused to negotiate with the Axis powers to end the war. |
| genocide | the extermination of an entire racial or ethnic group. Hitler's Final Solution was an example of this. |
| containment | U.S. policy during the Cold War characterized by trying to stop the spread of communism by keeping constant pressure on the Soviets. |
| domino theory | Eisenhower's belief that if South Vietnam fell to communism, the rest of Southeast Asia would soon follow. This theory led to the U.S. supporting the South Vietnamese government. |
| Vietnamization | policy started by President Richard Nixon where American troops were gradually pulled out of Vietnam and the war was turned over to the South Vietnamese troops. |
