Social 30 Unit 2 Vocabulary

Government programs that would provide social safety nets for workers.

Business cycle contraction. It is a general slowdown in economic activity

Stage of economic development during which application of technology results in mass production

Workers engaged in a similar function who unite to speak with management about their concerns.

Trying to improve the lives of others through various means, including social reform and aid.

Economic policy where private land is taken away and combined in collectively worked farms.

An extreme, right-wing, anti-democratic nationalist movement

The division of a society into different classes of people, usually based on income or wealth

An increase in the number of people residing in cities

Humanitarians who advocated an end to poor conditions of the working class through socialism

A radical form of socialism, often called scientific socialism or communism

Government should represent the legacy of the past as well as the well-being of the present

Change in a political regime idealizes the past and accepts economic traditions of the past.  

Change in a political regime often rejects the political and economic traditions of the past

Government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camps during the Stalin era

Exaggeration and misrepresentation of information to rally support for a cause or an issue.

A ______ change in a political regime often idealizes the past and accepts economic inequality.

Document that stipulated economic and military conditions that Germany lived under post WW1

The political act of disagreeing; the right to disagree

The act of restricting freedom of expression or freedom of access to ideas or works

An increase in the general price level of products, the cost of labor, and interest rates.

Considered to be a “demand-side” theory that focuses on changes in the economy over short term

"Let it be"

One who believes in the supremacy of reason of individuals over faith

A market that operates with limited government intervention.

Process by which the government, monetary authority of a country controls the supply of money,

An economic crisis that began in 1929 w/ the stock market crash & continued through the 1930’s

Government system that seeks complete control over the public and private lives of its citizens

A working-class movement in Britain that focused on political and social reform from 1838-1848

A protest movement of the early 1800’s against industrialization and mechanization.