chapter 19 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
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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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