American Heritage Vocabulary: Chapter 13

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Political ideology that favored not becoming entangled with European powers, either as friend or foe, but did favor robust trade relations with a variety of partners.

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Isolationism

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Ideology of James Monroe in which any aggressive move by a European power in the Western Hemisphere would be regarded as a challenge and affront to the United States

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Monroe Doctrine

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An approach to foreign policy that places the value and interests of one's own country above that of others. Unlike individual self-interest that promotes cooperation and exchange in a market, national self-interest tends to be aggressive and destructive.

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National Self-interest

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The belief that American expansion of an "Empire of Liberty" through the Western Hemisphere was justified by the benefits of bringing the American way of life to acquired territories.

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Manifest Destiny

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An aggressive style of bragging by European governments that helped bring about WWI.

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Jingoism

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The armed stalemate of the United States with the Soviet Union during the latter half of the 20th Century; it was portrayed as a war of freedom v. tyranny, democracy v. totalitarianism, capitalism v. communism

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Cold War