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1
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channeling of a nation’s entire resources into a war effort.

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Total War

2
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“the draft,” which required all young men to be ready for military or other service.

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Conscription

3
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spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause.

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Propaganda

4
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horrible act committed against innocent people.

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Atrocity

5
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right of people to choose their own form of government.

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Self-determination

6
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agreement to end fighting in a war.

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Armistice

7
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spread of a disease across a large area, country, continent, or the entire world.

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Pandemic

8
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payment for war damage, or damage caused by imprisonment.

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Reparations

9
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code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb during WWII.

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Manhattan Project

10
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in the United States and Europe in the 1920s, a rebellious young woman.

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Flappers

11
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system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all.

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Collective Society

12
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after World War I, a territory administered by a Western power.

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Mandate

13
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working class

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Proletariate

14
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early Soviet secret police force.

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Cheka

15
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reduction of armed forces and weapons.

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Disarmament

16
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government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens’ lives.

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Totalitarian State

17
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system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions.

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Command Economy

18
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the U.S. strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and preventing its further expansion.

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Containment

19
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“openness” in Russian; a Soviet policy of greater freedom of expression introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s.

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Glasnost

20
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the relaxation of Cold War tensions during the 1970s.

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Détente

21
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deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other.

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Stalemate