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balkanize
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to break up into small, mutually hostile political units
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ghetto
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an area of a city where a minority is forced to live
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collective farm
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a government-owned farm
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national idenity
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sense of what makes a place a nation
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multiplier effect
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the effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout an economy
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diversify
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increase the variety of
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entrepreneur
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an individual who starts and builds a business
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privatization
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the process of selling government-owned industries and businesses to private owners
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annex
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to formally add
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Holocaust
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the massacre of millions of Jewish people by the Nazis during World War II; led by Adolf Hitler
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velvet revolution
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a revolution without bloodshed
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