chapter 19 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 militarism | a nations interest in armed power |
| conscription | the drafting of citizens to serve in the armed forces for a set number of years |
| arms race | a competition between nations to have the most powerful weapons |
| armistice | agreement to stop fighting |
| autocrat | a ruler with unlimited authority. |
| czar | term for autocratic ruler of Russia, Russian word for casear |
| communism | a system in which all property and all means of production belong to the people as a group |
| soviet | a workers group that formed in Russia to plan and carry out the revolutionary |
| collective | a large farm owned and operated by workers as a group |
| purge | a government order to kill or imprison citizens who appose the government |
| totalitarian | characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control |
| great depression | the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s |
| inflation | a continuing increase in the price of goods and services. |
| propaganda | information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause |
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