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ch.11 vocabularys
Mr. Payne's ch.11 vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aircraft | system of carrying supplies by aircraft |
| blockade | to forcibly prevent entry to an area |
| cold war | period between the late 1940s and late 1980s when the U.S. and the Soviet Union competed for world influence without actually fighting eachother |
| communism | economic,social,and political system based on the teachings of Karl Marx, which advocated the elimination of private property |
| cooperation | farm owned and operated by the government |
| cottage industry | home or village-based industry in which family members supply their own equipment to make goods |
| deterrence | maintanance of military power for the purpose of discouraging an attack |
| EU | one of the economic alliances was the commen market, which became the European Union (EU) IN 1993. |
| euro | common curency adopted by countries in the European Union (EU) |
| genocide | mass murder of a people because of their race,religion,ethnicity,politics,or culture |
| holocaust | during WWII, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis carried this out which over 12 million people died and 6 million of the victims were jews |
| 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 | Europe's protector from communism |
| nuclear weapon | weapon whose destructive power comes from nuclear reaction |
| productivity | measurement of the amount of work accomplishment in agiven time |
| satalite 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 state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty |
| union | someone who spoke for all the workers in a factory or industry and bargained for better working conditions, higher pay, and a shorter working day |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (russia during communism) |
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