s.s vocab
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- productivity
- measurement of the amount work accomplished in a given time
- human resources
- supply of people whp can produce goods
- textile
- woven cloths
- cottage industry
- home or village-based industry in which family members supply their own equuipment to make goods
- union
- labor organization that nepotiated for improved worker conditions and pay
- strike
- refusal to work, usally by a labor organization, until demands are met
- imperialism
- system of building foreign empires for military and trade advantages
- alliance
- political agreement between countries to support each other in disputes with other countries
- communism
- economic,social, and political system basedon the teachings of Karl Marx, which advocated the elimination of private property
- holocaust
- the murdering of jews in World War 2 by Adolf Hitler
- genocide
- mass murder of a people because of their race, religion, ethnicity, politics, or culture
- cold war
- conflict between the U.S.and the Soviet Union dating from the late 1940s to the late 1980s , when the two superpwers competed for world influence without declared military action at each other
- nuclear weapons
- weapons whose destructive power comes from an uncontrolled nuclear reaction
- deterrence
- maintenance of military power for purpose of discouraging an attack
- satellite nation
- nation politically dominated or controled by another,more powerful country
- blockade
- to forcibly prevent entry to an area
- airlift
- system of carrying supplies by aircraft
- glasnot
- russian policy of "openness",which permitted Soviet people to criticize the government without punishment
- perestroika
- Soviet policy the loosened government controls and permitted its economy to move towards capitalism
- capitalism
- economic system that allows private ownership and open competitionof businesses
- European union
- Trade alliance among many European countries, formality called the Common Market
- Euro
- common currency sdopted by countries in the European Union