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Racism |
The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. |
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Prejudice |
An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason. |
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Fascism |
A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. |
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Anti-Semitism |
Hostility to or prejudice against Jews. |
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World War 2 |
A war fought from 1939-1945 between the Axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States. The Empire of Japan aimed to dominate Asia and the Pacific and was already at war with the Republic or China in 1937, but the World Waris generally said to have begun on September 1 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and the United Kingdom |