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 * __ ​ Topic #3__: __From Communism to Free Enterprise / Political Challenges__ (p. 430-432)**


 * L** (What did you learn? Take notes as you read; answer your questions):
 * Communism- any system of government in which a single, usually totalitarian, party holds power, and the state controls the economy
 * Free enterprise system-a market economy
 * Nuclear Energy- power made by a controlled atomic reaction
 * Democracy-a government in which the people freely elect their leaders
 * Federal Republic-democracy or form of government
 * The fall of communism lead Russians to adopt a market economy or free enterprise system and wanted to become more independent and wanted to be able to choose things themselves
 * With the free enterprise system it allows the Russian people to build and run there own business without the intervention of the government
 * Life expectancy depends on how health the population is 
 * Chechnya is a small place near the Caspian Sea where the Chechen people live
 * a russian president has more power than an american president
 * nuclear waste is power made by creating a controlled atomic reaction they leave dangerous by- products
 * free enterprise system is when people start and run businesses with little government intervention
 * the government told factory manager what products to make and how many and who they could sell it to
 * a free enterprise system is where people start and run their own buisnesess with little government intervention russian factory managers can decide what they want to make
 * people are suffering from pollution and life expectancy is declining
 * the communist government polluted the air, and poisoned the water they built energy plants that leave dangerous by products.
 * life expectancy is the number of years an average person lives?
 * nuclear energy-- power made by a controlled atomic action
 * pollution was all over Russia
 * democracy-- a government in which people can vote freely vote leaders