AP World History Flashcards 5 Flashcards

328298277	Consumerism	the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial	0
328298278	Fascism	a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition	1
328298279	Five-Year Plans	Plans 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. (781)	2
328298280	Import-Substitution	a government policy that uses trade restrictions and subsidies to encourage domestic production of manufactured goods	3
328298281	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)	4
328298282	Partition	(n.) something that divides (such as a wall); the act of dividing something into parts or sections; (v.) to divide or subdivide into parts or shares	5
328298283	Suburbanization	The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe.	6
328298284	Non-Aligned Nations	Developing countries that announced their neutrality in the Cold War. (p. 846)	7
328298285	Proxy War	war in which powerful enemy countries use other, less-powerful countries as substitutes to do their fighting for them; this is generally achieved by manipulating the less-powerful countries with information, and providing them with money and military equipment and training	8
328298286	Genocide	systematic killing of a racial or cultural group	9