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| 24059324 | Cold War | A proxy war between democratic U.S. and communist USSR although no shots were fired, the tensions were sky rocketing | 0 | |
| 24059325 | Communism | a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | 1 | |
| 24059326 | Consumerism | a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers | 2 | |
| 24059327 | Elites | the best of a class, the choice part | 3 | |
| 24059328 | Epidemic Disease | any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people | 4 | |
| 24059329 | Fascism | a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) | 5 | |
| 24059330 | Five Year Plan | Stalin's economic policy to rebuild the Soviet economy after WWI. tried to improve heavy industry and improve farm output, but resulted in famine | 6 | |
| 24059331 | Genocide | systematic killing of a racial or cultural group | 7 | |
| 24059332 | Ideology | a set of basic beliefs about life, culture, government, and society | 8 | |
| 24059333 | Imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. | 9 | |
| 24059334 | Import Substitution | a government policy that uses trade restrictions and subsidies to encourage domestic production of manufactured goods | 10 | |
| 24059335 | Industrialization | the development of industry on an extensive scale | 11 | |
| 24059336 | Mandate System | Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I, to be administered under League of Nations supervision. (p. 770) | 12 | |
| 24059337 | Marxism | the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded | 13 | |
| 24059338 | Middle Class | the social class between the lower and upper classes | 14 | |
| 24059339 | Modernization | making modern in appearance or behavior | 15 | |
| 24059340 | Nation State | Is a region with a single goverment and a united group of people | 16 | |
| 24059341 | Non-Aligned Nations | Developing countries that announced their neutrality in the Cold War. (p. 846) | 17 | |
| 24059342 | Partition | the act of dividing or partitioning | 18 | |
| 24059343 | Political Reforms | a reform in the political structure of a country/state/entity | 19 | |
| 24059344 | Proxy Wars | Wars that are not face to face for 2 other countries at war. For instance: U.S. and Russia fighting in North and South Korea. | 20 | |
| 24059345 | Sanitation Systems | a series of pipes to take dirty water away from houses and businesses | 21 | |
| 24059346 | Social Darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. | 22 | |
| 24059347 | Suburbanization | The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe. | 23 | |
| 24059348 | Suffrage | a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution | 24 | |
| 24059349 | Tax Revenue | government income due to taxation | 25 | |
| 24059350 | Technology | the practical application of science to commerce or industry | 26 | |
| 24059351 | Textiles | fabric, cloth, clothing | 27 | |
| 24059352 | The State | A body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically and with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority. | 28 | |
| 24059353 | Trade Goods | articles of commerce | 29 | |
| 24059354 | Treaties | formal agreements with other countries; negotiated by the president and requiring approval by two-thirds of the Senate | 30 | |
| 24059355 | Eastern Bloc | the name used for the former communist states of eastern Europe. | 31 | |
| 24059356 | Harry Truman | FDR's vice prez. took over when he died. made the decision to drop the atomic bomb | 32 | |
| 24059357 | Iron Curtain | an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy | 33 | |
| 24059358 | Marshall Plan | a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) | 34 | |
| 24059359 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | In 1949, the United States, Canada, and ten European nations formed this military mutual-defense pact. In 1955, the Soviet Union countered NATO with the formation of the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance among those nations within its own sphere of influence. | 35 | |
| 24059360 | Warsaw Pact | treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania | 36 | |
| 24059361 | Welfare State | a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. | 37 | |
| 24059362 | Technocrat | A bureaucrat who is intensively trained in technology | 38 | |
| 24059363 | Common Market | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members | 39 | |
| 24059364 | New Feminism | new wave of womens rights agitation dating from 1949; emphasized more lilteral equality that would play down domestic roles and qualities for women; promoting specific reforms and redefinition of what it meant to be female. | 40 | |
| 24059365 | Superpower | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world | 41 | |
| 24059366 | Berlin Wall | a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West | 42 | |
| 24059367 | Secularism | secular opinion or belief, especially a system following a political or social philosophy that rejects religious faith | 43 | |
| 24059368 | Marxist Theory | idea that those who control the economy have the real power in a society. | 44 | |
| 24059369 | De-Stalinization | social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | 45 | |
| 24059370 | Nikita Krushchev | The premier of Russia during the race to get satellites into space between Russia and the United States. He used many propaganda techniques to try to fool the world of Russia's intentions. President's Eisenhour and Kennedy dealt with his communist attitudes. | 46 | |
| 24059371 | Empire | an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh | 47 | |
| 24059372 | Space Race | a competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union | 48 |
