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good times and bad
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5th Grade
05/05/2010

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consumer good
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a product made for personal use
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installment buying
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paying a small part of the purchase price taking it home and pay the remaing cost on a schedule
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front
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a battle line
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assembly line
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a system of mass production in witch parts of a product such as a car are put togther as they move past a line of workers
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aviation

 

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air transportation
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commerical industry
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a industry runto make a profit
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jazz
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a kind of music that grew out of the aferican american musical heritage
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stock market
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a place where people can buy and sell stocks or shares in businesses
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depression
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a period in time when ther is little money and little ecnomic growth
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bureaucracy
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the many workers and groups needed to run goverment programs
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unemployment
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the number og people without jobs
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minimum wage
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the lowest pay a worker can recive by law
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hydroelectric dam
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a dam that uses stored water for electricty
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front
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a battle line
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D day
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June 6,1944 the day the word war 2 allies worked togher on the largest water-to-land invasion in history
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holocaust
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the murder of more than 6 million Jews in concentration camps during world war 2
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island-hopping
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the process of the Allies capturing island after island as they advance toward Japan
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communism
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a soical and economic in witch all industaries land and businesses are owned by the goverment
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free world
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the u.s. and its Allies who worked together to fight communism 
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concentration camp
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a gaurded camp where prisioners are kept
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civilian
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a person who is NOT in the military
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ratioing
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limiting what people can buy
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relocation camp
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prisonlike camps in witch japanese americans were held after boming Pearl Habor
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cold war
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a war fought with propaganda and money rather than soliders and wepons
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