[ 215 ] Civics and Government GED ® TEST SOCIAL STUDIES FLASH REVIEW _____________ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Use the following definitions of political beliefs and policies to answer the following four questions. Isolationism: a national policy of avoiding political alliances with other nations Nationalism: a sense of allegiance to the interests and culture of a nation Socialism: the belief that essential property and services should be owned and managed by the government Pacifism: the belief that nations should settle their disputes peacefully Regionalism: a political division between two regions within an area Read the quotation and identify which term best describes it. “This whole nation of one hundred and thirty million free men, women, and children is becoming one great fighting force. Some of us are soldiers or sailors, some of us are civilians. . . . A few of us are decorated with medals for heroic achievement, but all of us can have that deep and permanent inner satisfaction that comes from doing the best we know how—each of us playing an honorable part in the great struggle to save our democratic civilization.” —Radio address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 12, 1942 a. isolationism b. nationalism c. socialism d. pacifism