Ch. 12 Sect. 2 Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
perestroika | reform in the structure of the economy introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in 1985 |
glasnost | the Soviet Union's policy of openness that encouraged people to speak openly about government, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980's |
coup | a sudden, illegal takeover of government by force |
federal sytem | a system of government with a strong central government and local government units |
proportional representation | a system in which a political party gets the same percentage of seats as its percentage of votes |
revenue | income |
pipeline | a series of connected pipes used to transport liquids or gases |
radioactive | giving off energy caused by the breakdown of atoms |
fallout | radioactive particles from a nuclear explosion that fall through the atmosphere |
half-life | the time needed for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to decay |
contaminate | infect; unfit for use because of the presence of unsafe elements |
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