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Mr.Payne's ch 11 vocab

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airlift   system carrying supplies by aircraft  
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blockade   to forcibly prevent entry to an area  
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cold war   period between the late 1940's and late 1980's when the United States and the Sovien Union competed for world influnce without actually fighting each other  
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communism   economic, social and political system based on the teaching teaching of karl mark, which advocated the elimination of privvate property  
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cooperation   farm owned and operated by the goverment  
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cottage industry   home- or village-based industry in which family supply their own equipment to make goods  
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deterrence   maintenance of military power for the purpose of discouraging an attack  
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EU   stands for european Union  
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euro   common currency adopted by countries int the European union  
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Genocide   mass murder of a people because of thier race, religion, ethinic, politics, or culture  
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holocaust   systematic murder of more than 6 million European Jews and 6 million others by Adolf Hitler and the nazis during world war 2  
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Human resources   supply of people who can produce goods  
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Imperialism   system of building foreign empire for military and trade advanteges  
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interdependence   dependence of countries on one another for good's , raw materials to make goods, and market in which to sell goods  
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NATO   stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization  
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nuclear weapons   weapons whose destructive power comes from nuclear reactions  
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productivity   measure of the amount of work accomplished in a given time  
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Satellite nation   nation politically and economically dominated or controlled by another more powerful country  
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strike   refusal to work, usually by a labor organization,, until demands are meet  
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textlies   woven cloth  
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union   labor organization that negotiates for improvaed worker conditions and pay  
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