World History Unit 4 Vocab
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Emersong45 on March 14, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Communist | a philosophical ideal state where social classes, property ownership, and even government do not exist. |
| Bureaucracy | government made of many parts |
| Missionary | a person who travels to another country to spread their beliefs to the natives of that particular country |
| Sphere of Influence | a region that countries sought to influence in order to regulate Chinese commerce |
| Nationalist | a person who opposed the Manchu Dynasty; aimed to reassert Chinese authority over their country and overturn "unequal treaties" |
| Dynasty | the rulers of China in a certain time period |
| Boycott | to protest something by not purchasing a certain good/service |
| Cold War | a "war" between the Russians and the United States |
| Containment | a strategy of limiting the spread of Soviet influence |
| Counter-revolutionary | a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution |
| Price controls | System of pricing determined by the government |
| Sustainable | continuing, durable, enduring |
| Bourgeois | a member of the middle class |
| Underclass | A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics. |
| Free Trade | international trade free of government interference |
| Intellectual Property Rights | An indigenous group's collective knowledge and its applications. |
| Subsidy | a government payment that supports a business or market |
| Seperatist | one who advocates cultral, ethnic, religious, or racial separations, especially from a larger group or political unit |
| Trafficking | Trade, buying and selling (often used to refer to humans into servitude) |
| NATO | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security |
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