Mr. Payne's Ch 11 Vocab
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Airlift | System of carrying supplies by air transportation
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| Blockade | To forcibly prevent entry to an area
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| 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
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| 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
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| cooperation | to associate with another or others for mutual benefit
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| cottage industry | home or village based industry in which family members supply their own equipment to make goods
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| deterrence | maintenance of military power for the purpose of discouraging an attack
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| EU | European Union
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| euro | common currency adopted by countries in the European Union
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| euro | common currency adopted by countries in the European Union
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| genocide | mass murder of a people because of their race, religion, ethnicity, politics or culture
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| Holocaust | systematic murder of more than 6 million European Jews and 6 million others by Adolph Hitler and the Nazis during WWII
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| human resources | supply of people who can produce goods
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| imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military and trade advantages
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| interdependence | dependence of countries on one another for goods, raw materials to make goods, and markets in which to sell goods
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| NATO | [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] International military alliance created to defend Western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion
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| nuclear weapon | weapon whose destructive power comes from a nuclear reaction
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| Productivity | measurement of the amount of work accomplished in a given time
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| Satellite Nation | nation politically and economically dominated or controlled by another, more powerful country
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| Strike | refusal to work, usually by a labor organization, until demands are met
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| Textiles | Woven Cloth
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| Turmoil | a condition of extreme confusion
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| Union | labor organization that negotiates for improved worker conditions and pay
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| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russia during communism)
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