1. Chapter 20 Vocabulary

2. Detente
Easing of tensions between the United States and Soviet Union in the 1970s

3. Welfare State
System in which the government takes responsibility for its citizens’ social and economic needs

4. Recession
Period of reduced economic activity

5. Service Industry Industry that provides a service and not a product
Examples???

6. Euro
Common currency used by the member nations of the European Union

7. Chancellor
Prime Minister

8. Coalition
Temporary alliance of various political parties

9. Deficit
Gap between what a government spends and what it takes in through taxes and other sources

10. Surplus
Extra or excess

11. Civil Rights Movement
Effort in the 1950s and 1960s to end discrimination and ensure equal rights for all Americans

12. Segregation
Separation of the races

13. Separatism
Movement advocating that Quebec separate from Canada and become an independent nation

14. Dissident
Someone who speaks out against the government

15. Glasnost
Policy of openness instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s

16. Perestroika
Restructuring of the Soviet government and economy in the 1980s

17. Default
Fail to make payments

18. Ethnic Cleansing
Policy of killing or forcibly removing people of a certain ethnic group
Ethnic group – large group of people who share the same language and cultural heritage

19. War Crime
Act that violates international rules of war