On Friday, 27 Jan., we'll start working with the Cold War. I'm going to start a list of words that are relevant to this unit -- which will have many terms that are needed to work with the material in it. I'll keep this list at the top of the blog.
Cold War terms:
- anti-Semitism
- Soviet Union, USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- xenophobia - främlingsfientlighet
- acquisition - förvärv
- annex - add to one's own territory through appropriation (taking)
- prosperity - välstånd; prosperous
- atrocity/atrocities - illdåd
- ally/allies, the Allies
- alliance
- charter (kontrakt)
- treaty (avtal, pakt)
- devastate - ödelägga
- seize
- Holocaust - Förintelsen
- ideology
- reform
- satellite (used to talk about countries in associated with the Soviet Union.) (definition: something that is separated from or on the periphery of something else but is nevertheless dependent on or controlled by it: satellite offices in London and New York.)
- reparations - gottgörelse
- armaments - rustningar
- occupation
- currency - valuta
- dissolution - upplösning
- bloc - block (Soviet bloc - Sovjetblocket)
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