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IMPERIALISM
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ECONOMIC OR POLITICAL DOMINATION OF LESSER STATE
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OLD IMPERIALISM
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16TH-18TH CENTURY IMPERIALISM THAT ESTABLISHED TRADE BUT NO CONQUESTS OF LOCAL RULERS
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NEW IMPERIALISM
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IMPERIALISM BEGINNING IN 1880'S IN WHICH EUROPEAN NATIONS POLITICALLY SUBJUGATED NATIVE POPULATIONSI N AFRICA AND ASIA
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BOERS
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DESCENDANTS OF DUTCH SETTLERS OF SOUTH AFRICA, A SUBSET OF AFRIKANERS
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AFRIKANERS
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EUROPEAN SETTLERS IN AFRICA,
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GREAT TREK
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1830'S MOVEMENT OF AFRIKANERS INTO AFRICAN INTERIOR AFTER BRITISH TAKEOVER OF DUTCH SETTLEMENTS
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BOER WAR
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1899-1902 WAR BETWEEN BRITISH AND BOERS IN SOUTH AFRICA
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CECIL RHODES
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ENGLISH CAPITALIST WHO LED BRITISH INCURSIONS IN AFRICA
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LEOPOLD II
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BELGIAN KING WHO LED BELGIAN'S IMPERIALIST EFFORTS IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY
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BERLIN CONFERENCE
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CONFERENCE ESTABLISHED BY BISMARCK AND FERRY TO ESTABLISH RULES FOR EMPIRE BUILDING IN AFRICA
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JULES FERRY
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FRENCH LEADER WHO, WITH BISMARCK, ARRANGED 1884 BERLIN CONFERENCE
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OTTO VON BISMARCK
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GERMAN LEADER WHO, WITH FERRY, ARRANGED 1884 BERLIN CONFERENCE
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KHARTOUM
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SITE OF 1885 MASSACRE OF BRITISH BY MUSLIMS IN THE SUDAN
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BATTLE OF OMDURMAN
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1898 MASSACRE OF MUSLIM TRIBESMEN BY BRITISH MACHINE GUNS IN THE SUDAN
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FASHODA INCIDENT
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1898 NEAR WAR BETWEEN BRITISH AND FRENCH OVER CONTROL OF NILE
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SOCIAL DARWINISM
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SOCIAL APPLICATION OF DARWIN'S THEORY THAT THE FITTEST SURVIVE
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WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
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KIPLING PHRASE SUGGESTING THAT IT WAS THE EUROPEAN DUTY TO DOMINATE INFERIOR AFRICANS AND ASIANS
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J.A.HOBSON
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ENGLISH RADICAL WHO SUGGESTED THAT IMPERIALISM WAS AN UNFAIR OUTGROWTH OF UNREGULATED CAPITALISM
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1880'S
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DATE OF NEW IMPERIALISM
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1884-5
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DATE OF BERLIN CONFERENCE
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1898
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DATE OF BATTLE OF OMDURMAN
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1899-1902
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DATE OF BOER WAR
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THREE EMPERORS' LEAGUE
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1873 ALLIANCE OF CONSERVATIVE RULERS OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, GERMANY, AND RUSSIA
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TRIPLE ALLIANCE
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1883 ALLIANCE BETWEEN GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND ITALY
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WILLIAM II
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HOHENZOLLERN RULER OF GERMANY WHOSE AGGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICIES HELPED BRING ON WORLD WAR I
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ALGECIRAS CONFERENCE
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1906 CONFERENCE ON THE MOROCCAN QUESTION
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MOROCCAN CRISIS
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1905 CRISIS SPARKED BY WILLIAM II'S CHALLENGE TO FRENCH DOMINATION OF MORROCO
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BALKANS
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MULTI-NATIONAL REGION OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE WHOSE TENSIONS HELPED LEAD TO WWI
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SLAVS
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ETHNIC NATIONALITY THAT INCLUDED RUSSIA, SERBIA, CROATIA, ETC
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SERBIA
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SLAVIC NATION THAT LED OPPOSITION TO AUSTIANS AND OTTOMONS IN THE BALKANS
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FIRST BALKAN WAR
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1912 WAR OF SERBIA AND GREECE AGAINST THE OTTOMANS
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ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND
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HEIR TO AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN THRONE WHOSE 1914 ASSASSINATION BEGAN WWI
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BLACK HAND
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ULTRANATIONALIST SERBIAN TERRORIST GROUP BEHIND THE MURDER OF FRANZ FERDINAND
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PAN-SLAVISM
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BALKAN MOVEMENT TO UNITE ALL SLAVS
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SCHLIEFFEN PLAN
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GERMAN PLAN TO WIN GENERAL WAR BY ATTACKING FRANCE THROUGH BELGIUM, THUS AVOIDING TWO FRONT WAR
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NICHOLAS II
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RUSSIAN CZAR DURING WWI
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TRIPLE ENTENTE
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WWI ALLIANCE OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND RUSSIA (ALSO CALLED ALLIES)
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FIRST BATTLE OF THE MARNE
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SEPT. 1914 BATTLE THAT STOPPED THE SCHLIEFFEN-INSPIRED GERMAN ADVANCE, LED TO WESTERN FRONT
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TRENCH WARFARE
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PURELY DEFENSIVE, IMMENSELY COSTLY, AND AND STALEMATED WAR ON THE WESTERN FRONT IN WWI
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BATTLE OF THE SOMME
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1916 BATTLE THAT EPITOMIZED TRENCH WARFARE--INSIGNIFICANT TERRITORIAL GAIN AT COST OF 600,000 LIVES
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VERDUN
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1916 WESTERN FRONT BATTLE THAT, LIKE AT THE SOMME, SAW HUGE CAUALTIES WITH VIRTUALLY NO GAINS
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ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
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GERMAN NOVELIST WHO WROTE ANTI-WWI NOVEL ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
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REMARQUE NOVEL ABOUT WORLD WAR I
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WESTERN FRONT
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500 MILE LINE OF TRENCHES ALONG EASTERN FRANCE
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EASTERN FRONT
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900 MILE FRONT IN EASTERN EUROPE WHERE MOSTLY GERMANS AND RUSSIAN FOUGHT
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PAUL VON HINDENBERG
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GERMAN WWI GENERAL, LATER PRESIDENT OF GERMANY
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ERICH LUDENDORFF
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GERMAN WWI GENERAL
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ALLIES
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WESTERN POWERS PLUS RUSSIA THAT FOUGHT CENTRAL POWERS IN WORLD WAR I
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CENTRAL POWERS
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WWI ALLIANCE OF GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
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ZEPPELINS
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RIGID AIRSHIPS USED FOR BOMBING IN WWI
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TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK
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RUSSIAN-GERMAN TREATY FOR RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL AND SURRENDER IN WORLD WAR I
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GALLIPOLI
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1915 DEFEAT OF TRIPLE ENTENTE IN ATTEMPT TO TAKE DARDANELLES/CONSTANTINOPLE FROM TURKS
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T.E. LAWRENCE
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BRITISH COLONEL, KNOWN AS LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, WHO AROUSED ARABS TO RISE AGAINST TURKS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE
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GERMAN POLICY OF SINKING ANY SHIP IT THOUGHT MIGHT BE SUPPLYING ALLIES
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LUSITANIA
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BRITISH SHIP WITH AMERICAN PASSENGERS SUNK IN 1915 BY GERMAN U-BOAT
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PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE
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1919-20 CONFERENCE TO WORK OUT TERMS OF WWI PEACE
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ARTICLE 231
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SECTION OF TREATY OF VERSAILLES BLAMING GERMANY FOR WWI
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EASTER REBELLION
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BLOODY 1916 REBELLION OF IRISH AGAINST BRITISH
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1914
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DATE OF OUTBREAK OF WWI
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SEPTEMBER 1914
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DATE OF BATTLE OF THE MARNE
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1917
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DATE OF U.S. ENTRANCE IN WWI
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1919
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DATE OF PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE & TREATY OF VERSAILLES
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HOLY ALLIANCE
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POST-NAPOLEONIC ALLIANCE OF RUSSIA WITH OTHER REACTIONARY
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DECEMBRIST REVOLT
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1825 UPRISING OF YOUNG RUSSIAN OFFICERS AGAINST ABSOLUTIST CZAR
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FEBRUARY REVOLUTION
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1917 REVOLUTION THAT OVERTHREW ROMANOV DYNASTY AND ESTABLISHED WESTERN-STYLE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, ALSO CALLED MARCH REVOLUTION
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MARCH REVOLUTION
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1917 REVOLUTION THAT OVERTHREW ROMANOV DYNASTY AND ESTABLISHED WESTERN-STYLE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, ALSO CALLED FEBRUARY REVOLUTION
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TSAR NICHOLAS II
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RUSSIAN CZAR OVERTHROWN IN RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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DUMA
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RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
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RASPUTIN
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CORRUPT MONK WHO GAINED POWER WHEN CZAR NICHOLAS II LEFT PETERSBURG TO JOIN TROOPS ON FRONT
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PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
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LIBERAL PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT OF RUSSIA BETWEEN MARCH AND NOVEMBER REVOLUTIONS
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ALEXANDER KERENSKY
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ANCIENT OLD MAN I MET IN 1971, LEADER OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT AFTER THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION
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SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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REVOLUTION INVOLVING DISTRIBUTION OF PROPERTY RATHER THAN JUST POLITICAL REFORM
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JULY OFFENSIVE
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FATEFUL 1917 RUSSIAN MILITARY CAMPAIGN IN WWI THAT SPELLED POLITICAL END OF PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
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PETROGRAD SOVIET
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REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL OF WORKERS THAT COMPETED WITH PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT FOR POWER IN POST-FEBRUARY REVOLUTION
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ARMY ORDER N. 1
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ORDER ISSUED BY PETROGRAD SOVIET THAT STRIPPED OFFICERS OF AUTHORITY, REPLACED THEM WITH ELECTED COMMITTEES--LED TO COLLAPSE OF ARMY DISCIPLINE IN WWI
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VLADIMIR LENIN
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BOLSHEVIK LEADER OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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APRIL THESES
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LENIN'S MANIFESTO CALLING FOR 'ALL POWER TO THE SOVIETS', ALL LAND TO THE PEASANTS, AND RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL FROM WAR
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PEACE LAND BREAD
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SLOGAN FROM LENIN'S APRIL THESES
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BOLSHEVIKS
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RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS, LED BY LENIN
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KORNILOV REVOLT
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RIGHT WING ATTACK ON PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT BY ITS LEADING GENERAL, STRENGTHENED BOLSHEVIKS
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LEON TROTSKY
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LENIN SUPPORTER WHO EXECUTED BOLSHEVIK COUP D'ETAT
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NOVEMBER REVOLUTION
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1917 BOLSHEVIK SEIZURE OF POWER, ALSO CALLED THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
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OCTOBER REVOLUTION
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1917 BOLSHEVIK SEIZURE OF POWER, ALSO CALLED THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
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CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
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BOLSHEVIK-PROMISED FREELY ELECTED ASSEMBLY DISBANDED BY BOLSHEVIKS AFTER THEY LOST ELECTION TO IT
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SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARIES
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PEASANT PARTY IN RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR
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1919-1921 WAR OF BOLSHEVIKS AGAINST ALLIANCE OF CONSERVATIVES, ARMY OFFICERS NATIONALISTS, LIBERALS, AND FOREIGN POWERS
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WHITES
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RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR ALLIANCE OF OF CONSERVATIVES, ARMY OFFICERS NATIONALISTS, LIBERALS, AND FOREIGN POWERS
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REDS
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BOLSHEVIKS IN THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR
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WAR COMMUNISM
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TOTAL WAR CONCEPT OF RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR IN WHICH ALL RESOURCES WERE SEIZED, NATIONALIZED, ETC.
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CHEKA
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SECRET POLICE RE-INSTITUTED BY BOLSHEVIKS
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UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (USSR)
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BOLSHEVIK-LED FEDERATION OF NATIONALITIES AND SOCIAL CLASSED FOUNDED IN 1922
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1917
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DATE OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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1918
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DATE OF TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK
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1919-1921
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DATE OF RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR
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GERMAN REVOLUTION
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1919 UPRISING AGAINST HOHENZOLLERNS AND THE ABSOLUTIST STATE
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GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
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LEFT-LEANING BUT MODERATE AND LIBERAL GERMAN PARTY THAT LED GERMANY AFTER THE GERMAN REVOLUTION
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KARL LIEBKNECHT & ROSA LUXEMBOURG
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RADICAL GERMAN LEADERS MURDERED AFTER THEY TRIED TO SEIZE CONTROL OF GERMAN GOVERNMENT
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FREIKORPS
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RIGHT-WING PARAMILITARY ORGANIZATIONS IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
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SPARTACISTS
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MARXIST REVOLUTIONARY GROUP IN GERMANY DURING THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
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KAPP PUTSCH
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FAILED RIGHT-WING REVOLT AGAINST THE WEIMAR GOVERNMENT IN 1920
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REPARATIONS
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IMPOSSIBLY HIGH RESTITUTION PAYMENTS FORCED ON GERMANY BY ARTICLE 231
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HYPERINFLATION
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MASSIVE INFLATION OF 1923-4 GERMANY AFTER RUHR CRISIS FORCED IT TO PRINT MONEY TO MAKE REPARATIONS PAYMENTS
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KEYNES' ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE
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BRITISH ECONOMIST WORK THAT SUGGESTED THAT BOTH GERMANY AND EUROPE WOULD BE RUINED BY VERSAILLES ATTEMPT TO PUNISH GERMANY
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BEER HALL PUTSCH
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FAILED 1923 REVOLT BY ADOLF HITLER
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WEIMAR REPUBLIC
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LIBERAL PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT OF GERMANY 1919-1933
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RAYMOND POINCARE
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FRENCH PRIME MINISTER WITH TOUGH ANTI-GERMAN POLICIES IN THE 1920'S
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OCCUPATION OF THE RUHR
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1923 OCCUPATION OF GERMAN INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND AFTER WEIMAR FAILURE TO PAY REPARATIONS
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GUSTAV STRESSEMAN
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GERMAN LEADER WHO GOT WEIMAR ON ITS FEET AFTER HYPERINFLATION AND RUHR CRISIS
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DAWES PLAN
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AMERICAN LED PLAN TO REDUCE WAR REPARATIONS AND ASSIST ERMAN RECOVERY
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LOCARNO PACT
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1925 PACT IN WHICH GERMANY AND FRANCE ETAL. AGREED TO SETTLE DISPUTES PEACEFULLY
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KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT
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1928 MULTINATIONAL DENUNCIATION OF WAR
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ADOLF HITLER
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LEADER OF GERMAN NATIONAL SOCIALISTS (NAZIS)
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NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY
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FULL NAME OF NAZI PARTY
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BRITISH LABOUR PARTY
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QUASI-SOCIALIST BRITISH PARTY THAT REPLACED LIBERALS IN THE 1920'S
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RAMSAY MACDONALD
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LABOUR LEADER OF BRITAIN IN 1920'S
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STANLEY BALDWIN
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CONSERVATIVE LEADER OF BRITAIN IN 1920'S
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CONSERVATIVE AUTHORITARIANISM
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TERM TO DEFINE STANDARD ROYAL ABSOLUTISM/ ANTI-DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT OF THE 18TH-19TH CENTURIES
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TOTALITARIANISM
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RADICAL GOVERNMENT FORM OF THE POST-WWI PERIOD CHARACTERIZED BY A REJECTION OF LIBERAL INDIVIDUALISTIC DEMOCRACY, CULT OF THE RULER AND THE STATE, FOCUS ON WAR, AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO CONTROL EVERY ASPECT OF INDIVIDUAL LIVES
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MARXISM-LENINISM
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LENINIST ADAPTATION OF MARXIST DOCTRINE, MAINLY THAT REVOLUTION WOULD BE CARRIED OUT BY AN ELITE VANGUARD OF REVOLUTIONS RATHER THAN A PROLETARIAN UPRISING
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PERMANENT REVOLUTION
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TROTSKY THEORY THAT REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA WOULD INEVITABLY LEAD TO REVOLUTION ELSEWHERE
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SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY
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STALIN'S IDEA THAT RUSSIA COULD COMPLETE ITS MARXIST REVOLUTION EVEN IF NO OTHER COUNTRY JOINED IT
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FASCISM
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MUSSOLINI-LED MOVEMENT TO ENSHRINE THE STATE AND THE ABSOLUTE RULER AT THE EXPENSE OF THE INDIVIDUAL
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COMINTERN
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SHORT FOR COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL--A POST-WWI INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF COMMUNIST PARTIES
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JOSEF STALIN
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LEADER OF USSR 1927-1953
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FIVE-YEAR PLANS
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STALINIST PLAN TO ACCELERATE RUSSIA'S INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, AND TO CHANGE/MOBILIZE SOCIETY ALONG SOCIALIST LINES
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REVOLUTION FROM ABOVE
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STALIN'S TERM FOR THE FIVE YEAR PLANS
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NEW ECONOMIC POLICY (NEP)
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LENIN'S 1921 ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE SOVIET ECONOMY BY RE-INSTITUTING LIMITED ECONOMIC FREEEDOM
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COLLECTIVIZATION
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FORCIBLE CONSOLIDATION OF PEASANT FARMS UNDER STALIN
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KULAKS
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LANDOWNING PEASANTS DESTROYED BY STALIN
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SECOND REVOLUTION
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STALINIST ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH HIS RULE AND SOCIALISM BY A WAR ON THE RUSSIAN PEASANTRY
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THE GREAT PURGES
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1930'S REIGN OF STALINIST TERROR AGAINST MEMBERS OF THE ORIGINAL BOLSHEVIK AND COMMUNIST PARTIES
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1919
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DATE OF GERMAN REVOLUTION
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1923
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DATE OF THE RUHR CRISIS
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1924
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DATE OF THE DEATH OF LENIN
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1927
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DATE OF STALIN'S FORMAL ASCENSION TO POWER
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1930'S
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DATE OF RUSSIAN COLLECTIVIZATION AND GREAT PURGES
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BENITO MUSSOLINI
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FASCIST LEADER OF ITALY 1922-1943
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BLACK SHIRTS
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PRIVATE FASCIST ARMY OF MUSSOLINI
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MARCH ON ROME
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1922 FASCIST MOVE TO FORCE ITALIAN KING TO GIVE POWER TO MUSSOLINI
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VICTOR EMMANUEL III
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ITALIAN KING WHO APPOINTED MUSSOLINI
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GIACOMO MATTEOTI
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ITALIAN SOCIALIST LEADER MURDERED BY FASCISTS IN 1924
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LATERAN AGREEMENT
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1929 RECOGNITION BY MUSSOLINI OF INDEPENDENCE OF VATICAN WITHIN ITALY, INCLUDING A PROMISE OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF CHURCH
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1922
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DATE OF MARCH ON ROME
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MEIN KAMPF
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HITLER'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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RIECHSTAG
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GERMAN PARLIAMENT
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CHANCELLOR
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GERMAN PRIME MINISTER, POSITION HELD BY HITLER
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HINDENBERG
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GERMAN WAR HERO AND PRESIDENT WHO APPOINTED HITLER AS CHANCELLOR IN 1933
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ENABLING ACT
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1933 REICHSTAG ACT THAT GAVE HITLER UNLIMITED POWERS
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SA
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STORM TROOPERS/ PRIVATE NAZI ARMY THAT HELPED HITLER COME TO POWER
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GESTAPO
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GERMAN SECRET POLICY
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