100 vocab 11/15/07
vocab in mr. micheals class
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- multinational corporation
- large corporation with overseas investments
- nuclear proliferation
- the spread of nuclear wepons to new nations
- isolationism
- the avoidance of involvement in world affairs
- inssurection
- an act of rebellion against the established goverment
- detente
- relaxing of tensions between united states and its two major communist rivals, the soviet union and china
- communism
- an economic system in which the central goverment directs all major economic decisions
- brinksmanship
- the wilingness to go to the brink of war to force an opponent to back down
- segregation
- the separation or isolation of race,class,or group
- suffrage
- the right to vote
- fascism
- a polotocal system headed by a ditator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and has no tolerance for opposition
- containment
- the policy designed to keep the soviet union from expanding its power
- amnesty
- the act of granting pardon to a large group of people
- bilingualism
- the practice of teaching immigrant children their own language