World Geo SOL- Europe and Russia
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it |
| black death | A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351 |
| command economy | An economic system in which the government controls a country's economy. |
| free market economy | Capitalism, private ownership law of supply and demand |
| communism | a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership |
| capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership of capital |
| benelux | a customs union comprising BElgium and NEtherlands and LUXembourg |
| constitutional monarchy | A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution. |
| fjord | a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs |
| holocaust | the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler |
| iron curtain | a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region |
| loch | Scottish word for a lake |
| polder | Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area. |
| primate city | a city that ranks first in a nation in terms of population and economy |
| renaissance | the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world |
| USSR | union of soviet socialist republics |
| bolshevik revolution | phase of the Russian Revolution; led by Lenin and the Bolsheviks and marked the first Marxist communist revolution of the 20th century |
| coup | a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force |
| glasnost | a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems |
| perestroika | an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union |
| trans-siberian railroad | A railroad that went across Siberia |
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