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Chapter 9
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Social Studies
8th Grade
11/17/2011

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Default
Definition
Failure to pay back
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Expenditure
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The laying out of money
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Nonpartisan
Definition
Not favoring one political party over another
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Anti-Semitism
Definition
Opposition to the Jewish race
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Dictator
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One who has control over a goverment
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Facism
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A goverment system led by a dictator having complete power
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Sabotage
Definition
Delibberate damage done to interfere with work or other procedures
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Intertanment
Definition
To detain or confine
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Communism
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A system of social organization based on holding of all property in common
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Impasse
Definition
Anything that blocks advance
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Demobilization
Definition
To discharge from military service
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Holocaust
Definition
Mass slaughter of European Jews by Germans in concentration camps during World War two
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Ration Stamp
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A way to preserve commodities, in order to purchase goods during World War two, money wasnt enoguh. The buyer had to present ration stamps to purchase an item.
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Stock Market
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A place where securities (stocks and bonds) are bought and sold
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Isolationism
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The policy of not becoming involved in the affairs of other nations
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