GED social studies vocab. review

Match the follow with their definitions

• Axis Powers

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

• Electoral College

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

• Central Powers

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

• Allied Powers

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

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• Mayflower Compact

• The first governing document of the Plymouth Colony

• Manifest Destiny

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

• Articles of the Confederation

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

• Bill of Rights

• The original agreement between the 13 colonies

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• colonization

• The act of leaving one country to live in another

• assimilation

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

• emigration

• The establishment of a country's citizens in another territory

• immigration

• To become like something or someone else

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• Caplitalism

• An economic system based on free trade

• Conservatism

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

• Facism

• A political philosophy that subscribes to traditional beliefs and small government

• Communism

• A harsh and authoritarian form of government

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• Reconstruction

• a group where member nations agreed to mutual defense

• amendment

• A change or an addition to a legal document

• League of Nations

• The precursor to the United Nations

• NATO

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

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• monopoly

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

• checks and balances

• The act of separating people by ethnicity

• segregation

• To do away with something completetly

• abolish

• having exclusive control over a business or product

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• suburban

• Relating to a city

• cultural diffusion

• An area that is less populous than a city

• urban

• An agricultural area

• rural

• The spread of ideas among cultures

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• Monroe Doctrine

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

• NATO

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

• Truman Doctrine

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

• Warsaw Pact

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

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• Great Migration

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

• Japanese-American internment

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

• Jim Crow Laws

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

• Holocaust

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

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• inflation

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

• markets

• The devaluation of money

• GDP

• The value of all goods and services produced within a country

• fiscal policies

• Dealing with budgets