Question 1

a sharp rise in the price of goods

Accepted Answer

inflation

Question 2

the communication that reaches large numbers of people

Accepted Answer

Mass media

Question 3

Franklin Roosevelt's plan for helping the U.S. economy during the Great Depression

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New Deal

Question 4

to get ready for war

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mobilize

Question 5

a planned movement of troops from the sea

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amphibious landing

Question 6

a prison like place in which people are held during a war

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internment camp

Question 7

a mass murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis

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Holocaust

Question 8

limiting the amount of something that each person can buy

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rationing

Question 9

a ruler with complete power in a country

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dictator

Question 10

the practice of keeping different races, religions, etc., separate form each other

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segregate

Question 11

a nonviolent protest in which people sit down and refuse to get up

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sit-in

Question 12

an attitude that one's own group is superior

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ethnocentrism

Question 13

organization that worked to end segregation

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NAACP

Question 14

to open to people of all backgrounds

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integrate

Question 15

to believe that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same

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stereotypes

Question 16

the payment of money over time toward the total cost of an item

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installment plan

Question 17

a kind of music created by African Americans in the south in the early 1900's

Accepted Answer

jazz

Question 18

a time when the economy of a nation falls sharply

Accepted Answer

Depression

Question 19

citizens raised their own food in these during WWI

Accepted Answer

victory gardens

Question 20

a contest to build weapons and military power

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arms race

Question 21

a system in which each worker does a different job in putting together a product

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assembly line

Question 22

fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners

Accepted Answer

xenophobia

Question 23

a movement of people within a country or area

Accepted Answer

migration

Question 24

an apartment house with poor safety, sanitation and comfort conditions

Accepted Answer

tenement

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