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geography vocabulary
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Question | Answer |
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NATO | international military allience created to defend western europe against a possible soviet invasion. |
cooperation | to associate with another or others for mutual benefit. |
strike | refusal to work, usually by a labor orginization, until demands are met. |
human resources | supply of people who can produce goods. |
euro | common curency adopted by countries in the european union. |
eu | european union |
turmoil | condition of extreme confusion |
imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military and foreign advantages. |
communism | an economic system in wich 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 wich all goods are equally shared by the people. |
union | labor orginization that negotiates for improved worker conditions and pay |
nuclear weapon | weapon whos destructive power comes from a nuclear reaction |
cottage industry | home or village based industry in which family members supply their own equipment to make goods |
blockade | to forcably prevent entry into an area |
deterrance | maintnence of military power for the purpose of discouraging an attack |
interdependance | dependance of countries on one another for goods,raw materials to make goods,and markets n which to sell goods |
airlift | system of carrying supplies by aircraft |
halocaust | systematic murder of more than 6 million european jews and 6 million others by adolph hitler and the nazis during WWII |
genocide | mass murder of a people because oof their race, religion, ethencicy, polotics or culture |
satellite nation | nation politically and economically dominated or controled by another, more powerful country |
productivity | measurement of the amount of work done in a given amount of time. |
textiles | woven cloth |
USSR | union of soviet socials republic. |