Vocabulary Review

SSH3 a. b. c. d. e.

When there is Conflict Change is the result

keeping communism from spreading

Containment of communism

Mao’s communists, swept the Nationalist government from power

Red Army

walked about 6,000 miles to avoid capture

Long March

many students were organized into an army; it was their job to single out and remove anyone who was preventing China from becoming a really classless society

Red Guard

restoring the government of Sun Yixian and giving Japan control of some Chinese territory

Treaty of Versailles

students gathered to protest what they felt was corruption in the Chinese government; they called for a move toward democracy

Tiananmen Square

the United States and the Soviet Union found themselves engaged in this one where they competed with each other to get as many governments in place as they could around the world that were sympathetic to their own plans

Cold War

If one country fell to communism, all the others nearby would fall as well

Domino Theory

when plans were made to put the world back together after Germany and Japan were defeated; called for each country to temporarily occupy the lands where their troops were when the war ended

Yalta Agreement

reorganized all of China along communist lines of collective ownership of farms and factories

Great Leap Forward

students left school to make war on anything in Chinese society that was encouraging class differences

Cultural Revolution

a tax on good when they are imported (brought) in to the country from another country

Tariff

Characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities.

Federal

one in which government planning groups make most of the basic economic decisions for the workers

Command Economy

one in which a society’s economic decisions are made by individuals who decide what to produce and what to buy

Market Economy

Special goods, such as equipment, machines, and building, that are used to produced other goods and services

Capital Resources

Characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority

Unitary

Government by the few, sometimes a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes. The citizen has a very limited role.

Oligarchic

Are the people who work to produce goods and services

Human Resources (labor)

a different way of limiting the amount of foreign goods that can come into a country

Quota