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Unit 9 Vocabulary
Modern America
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty signed in 1919 that officially ended World War I |
| alliance | a formal agreement of friendship between countries |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| monopoly | a company that has control of an entire industry |
| corporation | a large business owned by investors |
| unemployment | the condition of being out of work |
| stock market | a central location where people buy and sell stocks in companies |
| internment camp | during WWII, guarded camps away from the Pacific Coast, where Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans were forced to move |
| dictator | a ruler who has total power over a country |
| concentration camps | One among many prisons set up by the German Nazis during World War II to contain mostly Jews but also other people considered enemies of the state. |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day when Allied forced launched a mjor invasion of German-occupied lands in France. |
| ratification | to make an agreement official by signing or voting for it. |
| equality | the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status |
| civil rights | basic legal freedoms and protections, such as the right to a fair trial |
| communism | An economic and political system developed on a national level in the Soviet Union and in China. Under communism, the government owns all the land and most industries in the name of the people. |
| Cold War | The mainly nonmilitary struggle for influence and control between the Soviet Union and the United States, which took place between the 1940s and 1990s. |
| space race | race between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore outer space during the Cold War |
| arms control | the limiting of the production of weapons |
| globalization | the development of a world economy, in which people, goods, and ideas move freely from one country to another |
| terrorism | the use of violence and fear to achieve political goals |