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Ch 11 Vocab,
Mr.Paynes Ch 11 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Airlift | system of carrying supplies by aircraft |
| Blockade | to forcibly prevent entry into an area |
| Cold War | period between the late 1940s and late 1980s when the United States and the Soviet Union competed for world influence without actually fighting each other |
| Communism | an economic system in which the government plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people |
| Cooperation | to associate with another or others for mutual benefit |
| Cottage Industry | home or village based industry in which family members supply their own equipment to make goods |
| Deterrence | maintenance of military power for the purpose of discouraging an attack |
| EU | European Union, economic alliance of European nations |
| Euro | common currency adopted by countries in the European Union |
| Genocide | mass murder of a people because of their race, religion, ethnicity, politics or culture 22 |
| Holocaust | systematic murder of more than 6 million European Jews and 6 million others by Adolph Hitler and the Nazis during WWI |
| Human Resources | supply of people who can produce goods |
| Imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military and trade advantages |
| Interdependence | dependence of countries on one another for goods, raw materials to make goods, and markets in which to sell goods |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, International military alliance created to defend Western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion |
| Nuclear Weapon | weapon whose destructive power comes from a nuclear reaction |
| Productivity | measurement of the amount of work accomplished in a given time |
| Satellite Nation | nation politically and economically dominated or controlled by another, more powerful country |
| Strike | refusal to work, usually by a labor organization, until demands are met |
| Textiles | woven cloth |
| Turmoil | a condition of extreme confusion |
| Union | labor organization that negotiates for improved worker conditions and pay |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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