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Crull's 2014 - 1st
Vocabulary beginning in January 2014
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Autocratic | A government in which power is held by a single self-appointed ruler. |
| Communism | An economic system proposed by Karl Marx in which all means of production are owned by the people, but are controlled by the government. |
| Confederation | A group of provinces or states that come together under a common constitution. They differ from a federation in that they retain specific state or provincial rights. |
| Constitutional Monarchy | A form of government in which a monarch is the head of state but his or her powers are restricted by law, usually within an parliamentary system. |
| Democracy | A type of government where political and governmental power is held by the citizens of a country. In a representative type, the people choose who will be their leaders. |
| Federation | A type of government in which groups of individual states are united under a strong central government. |
| Oligarchy | "Rule by a small group;" describes the ancient Spartan form of government. |
| Parliamentary Democracy | In this type of government, there is no clear-cut separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches, though the legislative has most of the governmental power. |
| Presidential Democracy | In this type of governmernt, the elected head of the executive branch acts independently of the legislative and judicial branches. |
| Theocracy | A form of government in which god is placed as the head of state and all rules are based soley on religious doctrine. |
| Unitary State | A type of government in which institutions of the state are governed as a single unit, with one constituionally created legislature. |
| Fascism | A political system that stresses national strngth, military might, and the belief that the state is more important than the individual. |
| Cold War | The period of tension between the United States and its allies (NATO) and the Soviet Union and its allies (The Warsaw Pact)following World War II until 1991. |
| Marshall Plan | An economic program initiated by the United States to help Europe recover from World War II. |
| European Union | An economic and political partnership among some European countries. It began as a trade alliance. |
| Iron Curtain | An imaginary line that separated Communist Eastern Europe from Democratic Western Europe during the Cold War. |
| Berlin Wall | A wall built by the East German government in 1961 to divide East and West Berlin. This wall came to symbolize Cold War divisions. |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product – The total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year. |
| Reunification | The process of becoming unified again. |
| Ethnic cleansing | The attempt to create an area with only one ethnic group by removing or attacking other ethnic groups. |
| Diversify | To provide a variety. |
| Secede | To break away. |
| Command economy | An economy in which the central government makes all economic decisions. Consumers and producers do not make basic economic decisions. |
| Collectivization | The shift of control to a group, or collective, from an individual or single entity. |
| Industrialization | Growth of machine–powered production and manufacturing. |
| Entrepreneur | A person who organizes and manages his or her own business. |
| KGB | The Soviet-era secret police |
| Privatization | Individual and private group ownership of businesses. |
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