Eleventh Grade, Units 1-3 Vocab

___ was founded in 1945 to promote peace & economic development between nations.

To partition a country or territory means to ___

___ was the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

___ is a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country, culture & people

Satellite nations are countries that ___

___ is the military alliance between the U.S. & Western European nations, formed at the start of the Cold War.

___ was a state of hostility that developed between the US & USSR after WW 2

___ was the fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life during the post-WW 2 period.

___ was the Cold War military alliance formed by the USSR & its Eastern European satellite nations.

___ is any means of communication that reaches a large audience (i.e. newspapers, radio, tv)

___ means to follow the patterns of social norms (i.e. getting married, having kids)

___ was a term coined by Winston Churchill describing the separation between free & communist Europe

___ are residential communities near a city that sprang up all over America after WW 2

___ is a political & economic system based on 1 party rule & state ownership of property

___ was the negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty to the U.S.

___ means to protest laws deemed morally unjust, no matter the cost to one's self

__ is the blocking of one nation's attempts to spread its influence around the world by another

___ is the control of a nation over a dependent country, territory or people

during the postwar period, ____ was the increased desire to spend more $ on consumer goods

A military stalemate is a situation in which ___

___ was the large, sustained increased in the U.S. birth rate after WW 2

A strategy which reasoned that WW 3 wouldn't occur because both sides knew all would be lost

___ refers to the "right" of people to choose their own form of government

___ was the U.S. Cold War policy of providing aid to other nations threatened by communism

___ is the US agency created at the start of the Cold War to gather intell on other nations

___ is a set of ideas that form the basis of economic & political theory (i.e. communism)

created to help WW2 vets return to civilian life by offering benefits like college tuition

___ involves the political & economic exploitation of other countries by a stronger nation

___ is a political system in which the government has complete control over its citizens

__ is an area separating hostile nations where neither side is supposed to have military forces