GED social studies vocab. review

The nations against the U.S. in WW II.

A group of people who directly elect the President of the US

The European countries that were against the Allied Powers in WW I

The nations that were aligned with the U.S. in both WW I and WW II

A founding document of the U.S. that outlines basic rights of the individual

The idea that the U.S. would expand from coast to coast

The original agreement between the 13 colonies

The first governing document of the Plymouth Colony

The act of leaving one country to live in another

To become like something or someone else

The establishment of a country's citizens in another territory

The act of moving into a country from another to live in the new country

An economic system based on free trade

A political philosophy that subscribes to traditional beliefs and small government

An economic system that is wholly run and controlled by the state

A harsh and authoritarian form of government

The precursor to the United Nations

A change or an addition to a legal document

a group where member nations agreed to mutual defense

The period of time when the South rebuilt after the Civil War

System to ensure that no one branch of the government has too much power

The act of separating people by ethnicity

To do away with something completetly

having exclusive control over a business or product

Relating to a city

The spread of ideas among cultures

An area that is less populous than a city

An agricultural area

Proclamation that the U.S. would not tolerate any new European colonization or interference in the Western Hemisphere

The belief that the US should provide aid to countries that were threatened by communist forces

A military alliance formed by the U.S., Canada, and Western European countries to support containment.

A mutual protection treaty established between Soviet Russia and other Eastern Bloc nations in response to the formation of NATO

The imprisonment of over 100,000 Japanese-Americans by the US gov't. after Pearl Harbor

Put in place in the South to limit the freedoms of African Americans

The movement of millions of African American from the South to the industrialized cities of the North

The period during WW II when 6 million Jews and millions of others were killed in German concentration camps

Dealing with budgets

The value of all goods and services produced within a country

The devaluation of money

Exchanges where stocks, commodities, or other things of value are bought, sold, and traded