Chapter 29 Vocab

a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters?

• Stagflation

• Inflation

• Recession

• Conformity

the action of subduing someone or something by force called?

• Repression

• Detente

• Domino

• Feminism

A term used to cover a variety of artistic and intellectual styles and ways of thinking prominent since the 1970s?

• Conformity

• Postmodernism

• Poststructuralism

• Eurocommunism

"opening toward the east"?

• Detente

• Domino

• Ostpolitik

• Feminism

the relaxation of tension between the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1970s?

• Recession

• Detente

• Repression

• Ostpolitik

behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards?

• Feminism

• Postmodernism

• Conformity

• Inflation

a form of communism that dropped its Marxist ideology. It was especially favored in Italy

• Eurocommunism

• Domino

• Poststructuralism

• Detente

theory that said if the Communists succeeded in Vietnam, other countries in Southeast and East Asia would fall to communism

• Domino

• Detente

• Conformity

• Repression

a system of thought, by Jacques Derrida, that holds that culture is created in a variety of ways, according to the manner in which people create their own meaning

• Postmodernism

• Poststructuralism

• Feminism

• Eurocommunism

a combination of high inflation and high unemployment that was prevalent in the United States in the 1970s

• Recession

• Inflation

• Stagflation

• Detente