Social Studies Nightmares

Lack of fairness or justice

A system of government by the whole population through elected representatives

A government in which everyone, including those in authority, must obey the law

A particular system of thought based on such study or investigation

Supreme power rests in in the citizens who vote and is exercised by representatives

Exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust way

Capitalist economy can regulate itself in a free competitive market through supply and demand

Theory based on the holding of property in common, ownership being the community or state

Systemic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps

Deliberate and systemic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group

Government in which the head of state is a monarch bound by the laws of the constitution

Large scale introduction of manufacturing, enterprises, and other economic activity in an area

The act of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city

A person exercising absolute power, unrestricted control in government; sometimes heriditary

A person who flees for safety, especially in a foreign country, in a time of upheaval or war

Rules that determine who is a citizen, and what rights and responsibilities they have

Government led by an abdicator having complete power, forcibly suppressing criticism

Economic system in which production, etc, is made by private individuals or corporations

Political and economic system where production, etc should be owned by the community as a whole

Rivalry after WWII between the Soviet Union and it's satellites under the United States