World Unit 6 Vocab Part 1

4. A war in which the powers in conflict use third parties as substitutes instead of fighting each other directly.
7. The fundamental restructuring of the Soviet economy; a policy introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev.
8. An economic system in which the central government plays an active role in the economy, establishing price and wage policies and subsidizing vital industries.
11. A country that is economically and politically dependent on another country.
13. The process of eliminating Joseph Stalin’s more ruthless policies.
14. A society preoccupied with buying goods.
15. The idea that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall.
16. In China during the 1950s, a group of collective farms that contained more than 30,000 people who lived and worked together.
17. A period of relaxed tensions and improved relations between two adversaries.
18. During the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet policies of holding huge arsenals of nuclear weapons to prevent war.
19. A plan to keep an idea or movement, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent further aggressive moves.

1. An unexpected maneuver, like sabotage and subterfuge, used to fight an enemy.
2. The period of political tension following World War 2 and ending with the fall of communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s.
3. Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues.
5. A state in which the government takes responsibility for providing citizens with services such as healthcare.
6. The renewed feminist movement of the late 1960s, which demanded that women have political and economic equality with men.
9. An economic system in which the central government directs, or commands, all aspects of labor, business, production, and distribution.
10. Building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy.
12. The Communist International, an organization formed in 1919 by Vladimir Lenin to promote revolution throughout the world.