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Armistice: An agreement to stop fighting.
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Atlantic Charter: A declaration of principles issued in August 1914 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of World War II was based.
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Axis Powers: In World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936.
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Blitzkrieg: "lightning war" - a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces.
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Bolsheviks: A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917.
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Civil disobedience: A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust.
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Command Economy: An economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions.
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Fascism: A policy movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule.
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Five: Year Plan - Plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy.
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Fourteen Points: A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I.
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Genocide: The systematic killing of an entire people.
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Holocaust: A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II.
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Isolationism: A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries
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Kamikaze: During World War II, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them.
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League of Nations: An international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations.
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Lebensraum: "living space" - the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded.
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Long March: A 6,000-mile journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist forces
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Mein Kampf "My Struggle" - a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923: 1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany
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Militarism: A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.
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Nazism: The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry.
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Nonaggression Pact: An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another.
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Nuremberg Trials: A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity.
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Proletariat: In Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia.
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Propaganda: Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause.
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Provisional government: A temporary government.
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Schlieffen Plan: Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which Germany troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia
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Third Reich: The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
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Total War: A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort.
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Totalitarianism: Government control over every aspect of public and private life.
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Treaty of Versailles: The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers.
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Trench Warfare: A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.
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Triple Alliance: A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding World War I
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Triple Entente: A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I.
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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare: The use of submarines to sink - without warning - any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in an enemy's waters.
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Weimar Republic: The republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933.
