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Modern America Vocab
5th Grade SS Unit 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty signed in France that officially ended WWI |
| 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 company 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 WWII to contain mostly Jews but also other people considered enemies of the state. |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day when Allied forces launched a major invastion of German-occupied lands in France. |
| Ratification | to make an agreement official by signing or voting for it. |
| Equality | the state of being the same in quantitiy 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 teh Soviet Union and in China. Under communism, the government owns all the land and most industries in teh 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 |