24058691 | epidemic disease | any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people | 0 | |
24058692 | gencide | the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. | 1 | |
24058693 | ideology | the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group. | 2 | |
24058694 | imperialism | the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. | 3 | |
24058695 | import-substitution | to replace one product with another from another provieder. | 4 | |
24058696 | marxist | an adherent of Karl Marx or his theories. | 5 | |
24058697 | middle class | a class of people intermediate between the classes of higher and lower social rank or standing; the social, economic, cultural class, having approximately average status, income, education, tastes, and the like. | 6 | |
24058698 | moderization | to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen. | 7 | |
24058699 | nation-state | a sovereign state inhabited by a relatively homogeneous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality. | 8 | |
24058700 | non-aligned nation | Nations of the Third World that as a group rejected alliance with either the United States or the former Soviet Union. | 9 | |
24058701 | partion | a division into or distribution in portions or shares. | 10 | |
24058702 | proxy wars | war that is part of a larger war and fought on land belonging to niegther of the original war nations. | 11 | |
24058703 | suburbanization | The establishment of residential communities on the outskirts of a city. In the United States, many suburbs were created after World War II, during a period of tremendous growth in population and industry. Suburban dwellers typically work in the cities but raise their families in a less-congested, safer, and more relaxed atmosphere. Especially in the United States, suburbanization often is associated with the sprawl of population. | 12 | |
24058704 | technology | the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science. | 13 | |
24058705 | texiles | any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting. | 14 | |
24058706 | the state | the government | 15 | |
24058707 | trade goods | products bought sold and produce by a country or company. | 16 | |
24058708 | communism | a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. | 17 | |
24058709 | superpower | an extremely powerful nation, esp. one capable of influencing international events and the acts and policies of less powerful nations | 18 | |
24058710 | secularism | the view that public education and other matters of civil policy should be conducted without the introduction of a religious element | 19 | |
24058711 | marxist theory | the social thoery that all are equal and everyone should own everything and all work is work weather you are a doctor or street sweeper. beginings of communism. | 20 | |
24058712 | de-stalinization | the policy, pursued in most Communist areas and among most Communist groups after 1956, of eradicating the memory or influence of Stalin and Stalinism, as by alteration of governmental policies or the elimination of monuments, place names, etc., named for Stalin. | 21 | |
24058713 | nikita krushchev | Born a Ukrainian peasant, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev joined the Communist party in 1918 and in four decades rose through the ranks to become the leader of all the Soviet Union. | 22 | |
24058714 | space race | the race between the united states and USSR to get to the noon. | 23 |
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