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Mix of GS concepts 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Annexation | absorbing or taking control of another country’s territory |
| Armistice | Agreement to end all fighting during war |
| Attrition | war tactic where one side attempts to win simply be wearing down the enemy through tons of small attacks which gradually lead to mass casualties |
| Commercial Farming | purpose is to produce a large amount of food for sale off the farm |
| Corporation | Business owned by stockholders |
| Direct Colonial Control | Officials from the home country control their colonies |
| Ethnic Cleansing | The forcible removal of a particular group of people with little regard for their well-being, often leading to mass casualties |
| Factions | Different groups of people with varying perspectives on the government (like a political party). |
| Globalization | where something that was originally a local idea or product becomes global |
| Indirect Colonial Control | Local leaders run the colonial country on behalf of the colonizer |
| League of Nations | An association of nations that would work together to promote peace and avoid another world conflict after WWI. |
| Margin Buying | People pay for part of a stock and borrow the rest of the money from a Stock Broker |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | treaty between the United States and Western Europe vowing to protect each other if one is attacked |
| Nullification | Idea that states were independent over the nation and could therefore stop/not follow any law the federal government proposed |
| Palestinians | Muslims living within the country Israel |
| Panic | A widespread fear concerning financial matters that makes people take extreme measures to protect their money |
| Reconstruction | Time period after the civil war when Northern Troops still occupied southern States to ensure the new laws were enforced |
| Public Work Programs | Government plan that provides jobs building public facilities such as schools, roads, etc. to increase employment and end economic depressions |
| Self-Determination | idea that ethnic groups have the right to govern themselves |
| Secession | An area of land that withdrawals from the country |
| Sharecropping | a person rents a small portion of a large estate and in return the person must give the landowner a portion of the harvest before selling the rest |
| Speculation | When someone continues to buy more and more stocks because they believe the price will continue to go up and up |
| Sphere of Influence | a country only controls the economic trade of another country |
| Subsistence Farming | most of the food produced is consumed by the farmer and his family. Very little will actually go to market for sale |
| Warsaw Pact | Treaty between the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to create a buffer between the Soviets and Non-communist Western Europe |
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