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19 Cards in this Set
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War |
Violent conflict between nations or organized groups |
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Peace |
Absence of violent conflict |
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Weapons of mass destruction |
Weapons with the capacity to kill thousands of people at one time |
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Reasons for war |
There's 7 |
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Military industrial complex |
Close association of the federal government, military, and defense industry |
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Total war |
Deadly conflict that targets both population centers and military targets |
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War crime |
Offense against the law of war established by the international agreement and international law |
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Crimes against peace |
Preparing or starting an unjust war against another Nation |
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Conventional war crimes |
Murder rape torture and deportation |
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Crimes against humanity |
Political racial religious prosecution's including systematic killing of any civilian population during the war |
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Nuclear weapons |
Bombs that use atomic reactions to generate enormous destructive force |
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Nuclear proliferation |
The acquisition of nuclear weapon technology by more and more nations |
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Deterrence |
Strategy to keep peace bases on the threat of retaliation MAD Mutual assured destruction |
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High technology defense |
Strategy including the strategic initiative employs high technology to defend against attacks |
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Arms control |
International agreement on the development testing production and deployment |
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Resolving underlying conflict |
Strategy that relies on diplomacy in order to resolve the conflict that Otherwise leads to War |
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Terrorism |
Unlawful typically random acts of violence or the threat of violence by an individual group or gov. to achieve political goals |
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State sponsored terrorism |
Practice by one gov of providing money, weapons, and training to terrorist who engage in violence in another nation |
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Repressive state terrorism |
Gov. Use of violence within its own National borders to suppress political opposition Ex Stalin secret police |
