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mobilization

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the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war

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propaganda

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ideas spread to influence the public opinion for or against a cause

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trench warfare

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fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire, as in WWI

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war of attrition

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a war based on wearing down the other side with constant attacks and heavy losses such as WWI

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reparations

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a payment made to the victor by the vanquished to cover the costs of war

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armistice

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a truce or agreement to end fighting

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Proletariat

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class of factory and railroad workers, miners and urban wage earners

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Bolshevik

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a small group of people who lead in the name of all people

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collective

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large farms owned and operated by peasants in a group

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command economy

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economic system in which government officials made all basic economic decisions

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atheism

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belief that there is no God

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totalitarian state

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a government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens

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fascism

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a political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler

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nazi

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shortened form of the German Nazional, or the National Socialist German Workers’ Party; a member of such party

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concentration camp

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a camp where prisoners of war, political prisoners, or members of minority groups are confined, typically under harsh conditions

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aryan

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a term used to identify people speaking Indo-European languages; Nazis misused the term, treating it as a racial designation and identifying the Aryans with the ancient Greeks and Romans and twentieth-century Germans and Scandinavians

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genocide

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the deliberate mass murder or physical extinction of a particular racial, political, or cultural group

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ethnic cleansing

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a policy of killing or forcibly removing an ethnic group from its lands; used by the Serbs against the Muslim minority in Bosnia

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Pan-Africanism

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the unity of all black Africans, regardless of national boundaries

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civil disobedience

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refusal to obey laws that are considered to be unjust

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guerrilla tactics

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the use of unexpected maneuvers like sabotage and subterfuge to fight an enemy

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appeasement

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satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability

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isolationism

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a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations

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collaborator

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a person who assists the enemy

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blitzkrieg

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German for “lightning war”; a swift and sudden military attack; used by the Germans in World War II

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Cold War

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the period of political tension following World War II and ending with the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s

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conscription

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military draft