Capitalism
Socialism
Communism
Vocabulary
WWI
100

T or F

Emphasizes private ownership

What is true?

100

T or F

Emphasizes on private ownership

What is false?

100

T or F

Emphasizes on no government involvement

What is false?

100

Money earned after business costs are paid

What is profit?

100

This continent was the main setting for World War I.

What is Europe?

200

What is one of the four important features of capitalism?

What is private ownership, profit, competition, or consumer choice?

200

Resources or businesses are owned or controlled by a group, community, or the public rather than solely by private individuals

What is collective ownership?

200

He wrote The Communist Manifesto

Who is Karl Marx?

200

A system in which buyers and sellers exchange goods and services

What is a market?

200

An agreement between countries to support one another is called this.

What is an alliance?

300

This term describes the ability of people and businesses to compete for customers and profits.

What is competition?

300

Socialism often emphasizes reducing this economic condition between different groups of people.

What is inequality?

300

Factories, mines, and machinery used to produce goods are examples of these.

What are means of production?

300

In capitalism, prices are often determined by the interaction of these two forces.

What are supply and demand?

300

This event is commonly identified as the immediate trigger of World War I.

What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

400

In a capitalist economy, this group generally owns and operates businesses rather than the government.

Who are private individuals and companies?

400

This type of economy combines private businesses and markets with significant government programs and regulation.

What is a mixed economy?

400

A society without economic classes is described by Marxist theory as this.

What is a classless society?

400

Reducing differences in wealth, income, or access to resources

What is economic equality?

400

If you remember MAIN, you can remember these four major long-term causes of World War I.

What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?

500

This famous economist argued that individuals pursuing their own economic interests could unintentionally contribute to economic prosperity.

Who is Adam Smith?

500

Unlike the strict theoretical definition of communism, many forms of socialism can allow this alongside public or collective ownership.

What is private property/private businesses?


500

This economic system is often contrasted with communism because it emphasizes private ownership and markets.

What is capitalism?

500

Productive resources being owned collectively rather than by individual private owners?

What is common ownership?

500

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy were originally members of this alliance.

What is the Triple Alliance?