chap 11 vocabulary Word Scramble
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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 distributed equally among people |
textiles | woven cloth |
deterrance | maintence of military power for the purpose of discouraging an attack |
strike | refusal to work, usually by a labor organization, until demands are met |
airlift | system of carrying supplies by aircraft |
genocide | mass murder of people because of their race, religion,ethnicity, politics, or culture |
union | labor organization that negotiates for improved worker conditions or pay |
EU | european union |
satellite nation | nation politically and economically dominated or controlled by another, more powerful country |
cold war | period between the late 1940's and late 1980's when the united states and the soviet union competed for world influence without actually fighting each other |
USSR | union of soviet socialist republics |
interdependence | dependence of countries on one another for goods, raw materials to make goods, and markets to sell goods |
cottage industry | home or village based industry in which family members supply their own equipment to make goods |
productivity | measurement of amount of work in a given time |
cooperation | to associate with another or others for mutual benifit |
holocaust | systematic murder of more than 6 million european jews and 6 million others by adolph hitler and the nazis during WWII |
human resources | supply of people who can produce goods |
imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military and trade advantages |
turmoil | a condition of extreme confusion |
NATO | north atlantic treaty organization |
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