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| 4265353953 | socialist market economy | market economy that combines substantial state ownership of large industries with private enterprise, where both forms of ownership operate in a free-pricing market environment | 0 | |
| 4265353954 | special economic zones | specific area within a country in which tax incentives and less stringent environmental regulations are implemented to attract foreign business and investment | 1 | |
| 4265353955 | stateless nations | people groups without established sovereign borders; such as Kurds or Palestinians | 2 | |
| 4265353956 | supranational organizations | cooperating groups of nations that operate on either a regional or international level. | 3 | |
| 4265353957 | Tiananmen crisis | demonstration by students intellectuals criticizing corruption and demanding democratic reforms, government responded by sending army in to cease protests who killed hundreds of citizens | 4 | |
| 4265353958 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights. | 5 | |
| 4265353959 | Weapons of Mass Destruction | nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that can kill tens of thousands of people all at once | 6 | |
| 4265353960 | World Bank | a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments | 7 | |
| 4265353961 | Boris Yeltsin | president of the Russian Republic in 1991. Helped end the USSR and force Gorbachev to resign. | 8 | |
| 4265353962 | abolish | do away with formally | 9 | |
| 4265353963 | assembly line | production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks. | 10 | |
| 4265353964 | cartel | a formal organization of producers that agree to coordinate prices and production | 11 | |
| 4265353965 | communism | a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | 12 | |
| 4265353966 | constitution | law determining the fundamental political principles of a government | 13 | |
| 4265353967 | corporation | a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | 14 | |
| 4265353968 | doctrine | a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | 15 | |
| 4265353969 | domestic | produced in a particular country | 16 | |
| 4265353970 | emancipation | the act of setting free | 17 | |
| 4265353971 | enclosure | process of taking over and fencing off land once shared by peasant farmers | 18 | |
| 4265353972 | Estates-General | assembly of the estates of all France | 19 | |
| 4265353973 | factory | places that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods | 20 | |
| 4265353974 | free market | economic system in which individuals decide for themselves what to produce and sell | 21 | |
| 4265353975 | free trade | the removal of trade barriers so that goods can flow freely between countries | 22 | |
| 4265353976 | immigration | movement of individuals into an area occupied by an existing population | 23 | |
| 4265353977 | imperialism | a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries | 24 | |
| 4265353978 | indemnity | legal exemption from liability for damages | 25 | |
| 4265353979 | Industrial Revolution | change in technology, brought about by improvements in machinery and by use of steam power | 26 | |
| 4265353980 | Laissez-Faire | idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs | 27 | |
| 4265353981 | labor union | an organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members | 28 | |
| 4265353982 | Marxism | the theory created by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels that centers on communism and its inevitability. | 29 | |
| 4265353983 | nationalism | loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality. | 30 | |
| 4265353984 | natural resources | materials found in nature that are used by living things | 31 | |
| 4265353985 | rural | living in or characteristic of farming or country life | 32 | |
| 4265353986 | social class | a group of people with similar backgrounds, incomes, and ways of living | 33 | |
| 4265353987 | social Darwinism | the belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle. | 34 | |
| 4265353988 | socialism | a political theory advocating state ownership of industry | 35 | |
| 4265353989 | suffrage | the right to vote | 36 | |
| 4265353990 | trade union | organization of workers with the same trade or skill | 37 | |
| 4265353991 | universal suffrage | the right of all adults to vote for their representatives. | 38 | |
| 4265353992 | wage labor | the arrangement by which workers get a regular paycheck in exchange for performing a specific task | 39 | |
| 4265353993 | American Revolution | the war between Great Britain and its American colonies, 1775-83, by which the colonies won their independence. | 40 | |
| 4265353994 | Berlin Conference | a meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa | 41 | |
| 4265353995 | Bloody Sunday | 1905, peaceful protest to czar Nicholas II palace, led by Father Gapon, fired on by palace guards, 100s died | 42 | |
| 4265353996 | Boer Wars | a conflict, lasting from 1899 to 1902, in which the Dutch and the British fought for control of territory in South Africa. | 43 | |
| 4265353997 | Boxer Rebellion | a 1900 uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country. | 44 | |
| 4265353998 | British East India Company | joint stock company that obtained monopoly over trade in India; acted as virtually independent government in regions it claimed. | 45 | |
| 4265353999 | Capitulations | agreements with European powers that gave European bankers and merchants unfair advantages in the Ottoan Empire | 46 | |
| 4265354000 | Charles Dawin | In 1859, he published his book on the origin of species by means of natural selection. | 47 | |
| 4265354001 | Communist Manifesto | a socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1842) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views | 48 | |
| 4265354002 | Congress of Vienna | restored a balance of power to Europe after Napoleon's reign | 49 |
