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U S HISTORY Vocab
Vocabulary CD
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| capital | money available for investment |
| Christianity | monotheistic religion that emerged during the first century |
| Civil Disobedience | refusal to obey laws that are considered to be unjust |
| Civilization | a complex culture in which large numbers of people that share basic elements such as social structure, religion and art |
| Cold War | the period of political tension following WWII and ending with the fall of communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980's |
| collaborator | a person who assists the enemy |
| collective bargaining | the right of unions to negotiate with employers over wages and hours |
| collectivization | a system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government |
| commodity | a marketable product |
| common law | a uniform system of laws developed in England based on court decisions and on customs and usage rather than on written law codes; replaces law codes that varied from place to place |
| commonwealth | a republic |
| commune | in China during the 1950's a group of collective farms each of which contained more than 30,000 people who lived and worked together |
| concentration camp | a camp where prisoners of war were became political prisoners, or members of minority groups are confined, typically under harsh conditions |
| concession | political compromise |
| Confucianism | the system of Political and ethical ideals formulated by the Chinese philosopher Confucius toward the end of the Zhow dynasty; it was intended to help restore order to a society that was in a state of confusion |
| deterrence | security policy which holds that if two sides in a political conflict have huge arsenals of nuclear weapons, war can be prevented |
| dictatorship | a form of government in which a person or small group has absolute power |
| direct democracy | a system of government in which the people participate directly in government decision making through mass meetings |
| direct rule | colonial government in which local eliltes are removed from power and replaced by a new set of officials brought from the mother country |
| discrimination | prejudice usually biased on race, religion, class, sex, or age |
| dissident | a person who speaks out against the regime in power |
| destalinization | process of eliminating Stalin's more ruthless policies |
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