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323069297Consumerismconcentration on producing and distributing goods for a market which must constantly be enlarged0
323069298Fascisma political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition1
323069299Five-Year PlansPlans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly, beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel, electricity, machinery, and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state.2
323069300Import-Substitutiona government policy that uses trade restrictions and subsidies to encourage domestic production of manufactured goods3
323069301Mandate SystemAllocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I, to be administered under League of Nations supervision.4
323069302Partitionsomething that divides (such as a wall); the act of dividing something into parts or sections; to divide or subdivide into parts or shares5
323069303SuburbanizationMovement of upper and middle-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions (perceived and actual). In North America, the process began in the early nineteenth century and became a mass phenomenon by the second half of the twentieth century.6
323069304Non-Aligned Nationsthe independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union7
323069305Proxy WarsDuring the Cold War, local or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and financed the combatants.8
323069306Genocidethe deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.9

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