| A | B |
|---|
| Separation of Powers | division of powers between branches of govt |
| Checks and Balances | prevents any one part of the government from becoming too powerful; veto, impeachment, declaring acts unconstitutional |
| Federalism | power is divided between a strong central government and state governments |
| Republicanism | citizens elect representatives and give them the authority to make and enforce laws |
| Industrialized nation | has low infant mortality, high literacy, high per capita income, market economy |
| Third World nation | has high infant mortality, low literacy, low per capita income, subsistence economy |
| Market economy | economy in which land, labor and capital are controlled by individual persons |
| Subsistence economy | economy in which people produce only enough to feed the family, with little remaining to sell or trade |
| Primary source | document written by a person who participated in a particular event; autobiography, battlefield map, letter, journal, interview, etc. |
| Secondary source | document written by someone who did not actually participate in an event; biography, history book, etc. |
| Command economy | economy in which the government controls all economic decisions |
| Totalitarianism | government under complete control of a dictator |
| Monarchy | government under control of king or queen |
| Oligarchy | government under control of a small group of people |
| Theocracy | government under control of a religious group |
| Domestic system | method of production that takes place in worker's home rather than in a shop or factory |
| Factory system | production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers |
| Factors of production | basic resources for industrialization, such as necessary land, captial, and labor |
| Containment | U. S. foreign policy during the Cold War that sought to prevent the expansion of Soviet communism |
| Domino theory | Cold-war era belief that if one nation in Southeast Asia fell to communism, the rest of Southeast Asia would also fall |
