Chapter 21, Ninth grade Cultures
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- NATIONALISM
- A people's pride in its country.
- NEUTRAL
- Not choosing sides.
- ARMISTICE
- An agreement to end fighting.
- STOCK
- Shares of ownership in a company.
- REPARATIONS
- Payments for losses suffered during a war.
- DEPRESSION
- Economic downturn when things go very bad.
- BREAD LINE
- Lines of people waiting for a free meal.
- DICTATORSHIP
- This is when leaders hold complete authority over the people they rule.
- ULTIMATUM
- A last chance to surrender immediately. (What Truman issued to the Japanese before bombing.)
- HOLOCAUST
- The mass murder of the Jews and others by the Nazis. About six million Jews were murdered in concentration camps.
- COLD WAR
- A time when great tensions divided the US and the Soviet Union because they were two of the world's most powerful nations. No fighting took place.
- FREE WORLD
- Non-Communist Nations
- SEGREGATION
- The separation of whites and African-Americans.
- MULTINATIONAL STATE
- A nation with many different ethnic groups.