World Unit 6 Vocab Part 1
Across
- 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.
Down
- 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.