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SS terms 31-60
Dec 17th, 2010
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cultural Diversity | having people of various cultural back grounds in an area. |
| Culture | the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. |
| Data | factual information organized for analysis. |
| Democracy | a system of government in which political control is exercised by all the people, either directly or through their elected representatives. |
| Depression | a period of economic slowdown in which there is high unemployment, business failures, and the economy operates far below its capacity. |
| Dictator | a leader of country who has absolute power and authority. |
| Disarmament | the reduction of armed troops and weapons. |
| Discrimination | the unfair treatment of a person or group based on a variety of prejudices. |
| Enlightenment | an historical period in the 18th century in which science and reason was applied to question traditional thinking about the world; provided new thinking about government and people's rights. |
| Environment | the totality of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, and survival of organisms. |
| Equality | a situation in which people have the same privileges, status, or rights. |
| Exploitation | taking advantage of other people for selfish purposes. |
| Exports | goods sold to other countries. |
| Fascism | a form of totalitarianism in which a nation is ruled by a dictator. |
| Federal Reserve System | a national banking system, created in 1913, that controls the United State money supply and the availability of credit. |
| Free enterprise | individuals make economic decisions in market economy. |
| Genocide | the attempt to destroy a religious or ethnic group. |
| Geographical movement | the movement of people, products, and ideas from one part of the world to another. |
| Global economy | the interconnections of the market that go beyond national boundaries. |
| Globalization | the act, process, or policy of making something worldwide in scope or application. |
| Great Depression | the world-wide economic slowdown during the 1930's |
| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | the value of all final goods and services produced within a country's borders in a given year. |
| Holocaust | the effort by the Nazis in Germany to eliminate Jews; 6 million Jews were killed. |
| Immigration | the movement of people to one region or country from another region or country. |
| Imperialism | a policy of stronger countries in taking economic, political, and social control over weaker countries. |
| Imports | good purchased from other countries. |
| Indigenous language | the native language of a people in an area. |
| Indigenous people | population native to an area. |
| Industrial society | a society in which people make their living from the production of goods. |
| Industrialization | the transformation of a society from one based on farming to one based on the production of goods, usually associated with urbanization. |
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