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Ch 11 Vocab
Mr. Payne's Ch 11 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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airlift | 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 United States and the Soviet Union competed for world influence without actually fighting each other |
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 |
cooperation | to associate with another or others for mutual benefit |
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 | (European Union) economic alliance of European countries |
euro | common currency adopted by countries in the European Union |
genocide | mass murder of 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 Adolf Hitler and the Nazis during WW2 |
human resources | supply of people who can produce goods |
imperialism | system of building foreign empires for military and trade advantages |
NATO | (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) International military alliance created to defend Western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion |
interdependence | dependence of countries on one another for goods, raw materials to make goods, and markets in which to sell goods |
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 state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty |
union | labor organization that negotiates for improved worker conditions and pay |
USSR | Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (Russia during communism) |