ch 11 Vocab Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| airlift | system carrying supplies by aircraft |
| blockade | to forcibly prevent entry to an area |
| cold war | period between the late 1940's and late 1980's when the United States and the Sovien Union competed for world influnce without actually fighting each other |
| communism | economic, social and political system based on the teaching teaching of karl mark, which advocated the elimination of privvate property |
| cooperation | farm owned and operated by the goverment |
| cottage industry | home- or village-based industry in which family supply their own equipment to make goods |
| deterrence | maintenance of military power for the purpose of discouraging an attack |
| EU | stands for european Union |
| euro | common currency adopted by countries int the European union |
| Genocide | mass murder of a people because of thier race, religion, ethinic, politics, or culture |
| holocaust | systematic murder of more than 6 million European Jews and 6 million others by Adolf Hitler and the nazis during world war 2 |
| Human resources | supply of people who can produce goods |
| Imperialism | system of building foreign empire for military and trade advanteges |
| interdependence | dependence of countries on one another for good's , raw materials to make goods, and market in which to sell goods |
| NATO | stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| nuclear weapons | weapons whose destructive power comes from nuclear reactions |
| productivity | measure 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 meet |
| textlies | woven cloth |
| union | labor organization that negotiates for improvaed worker conditions and pay |
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