Across
- 3. political agreement between countries to support each other in disputes with other countries.
- 4. maintenance of military power for the purpose of discouraging an attack
- 7. common currency ($) adopted by countries in the European Union.
- 9. from Greek “love of wisdom
- 10. citizens choose nations leaders by voting
- 11. to forcibly prevent entry into an area.
- 12. mass murder of a people because of their race, religion, ethnicity, politics, or culture.
- 13. systematic murder by Adolf Hitler and his followers of more than 12 M people, including 6 M European Jews, during WWII.
- 15. measurement of the amount of work accomplished in a given time.
- 18. describes a body of water wide and deep enough to allow the passage of ships.
- 19. weapon whose destructive power comes from an uncontrolled atomic reaction.
- 20. nation with a strong national government headed by elected leaders.
Down
- 1. government in which a king or queen is the official head of state, but elected officials run the government
- 2. supply of people who can produce goods.
- 5. conflict between the US and the Soviet Union dating from the late 1940’s to the late 1980’s, when the two superpowers competed for world influence without declared military action at each other.
- 6. trade alliance among many European countries, formerly called the Common Market.
- 8. system of building foreign empires for military and trade advantages.
- 14. able to speak several languages.
- 16. woven cloth
- 17. relate to ancient Greek and Roman