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ch 11 vocab
Nr paynes ch 11 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Airlift | system of carrying supplies by aircraft. |
| Blockade | to forcibly prevent entry to an area. |
| Coldwar | 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 | economic,social,and political system based on the teachings of Karl Marx which advocated the elimination of private property. |
| Cooperation | the act of cooperating,or of operating together to one end,joint operation,concurrent effort or labor |
| 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 | the largest free trade organization |
| 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 |
| Holocaust | systematic murder of more than 6 million European jews and 6 million others by Adolph Hitler and the Nazis during world war 2 |
| Human Resources | supply of people who can produce goods |
| Imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military and trade advanteges |
| Interdependence | dependence of countries on one another for goods, raw materials to make goods, and markets in which to sell goods. |
| NATO | formed to respond to possible attacks by the soviet union |
| 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, or the soviet union |