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Totalitarianism |
Totalitarianism is a form of government that permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of the individual's life to the authority of the government.
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/600435/totalitarianism
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/totalitarianism |
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War |
An armed conflict between different nations or states; or of different groups in a nation or state.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/war
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/war
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Guerilla |
It is a member of an unofficial military group that tries to change the government by launching unexpected attacks on the official army forces.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/guerrilla
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/guerrilla
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Holocaust |
The mass murder of 6 million European Jews (and other groups) by the German Nazi regime during the second World War.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust |
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Genocide |
It is the deliberate extermination of a religious, racial, or ethnic group.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007043
http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_genocide_intro.html
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Dirty War |
An Argentine military campaign against left-wing guerrilla groups and other opponents of the regime.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dirty+War
http://www.audioenglish.org/dictionary/dirty_war.htm |
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Revolution |
An overthrow of a government in favor of a new system.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/revolution
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/american-english/revolution |
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Dictatorship |
It is a form of government in which one person possesses absolute power without constitutional limitations.
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/162240/dictatorship
https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Dictatorship.html
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Communism |
Political and economical that aims to replace private property and profit-based economy with public ownership . People control the major means of production and the natural resources.
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/129104/communism
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm |
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Cold War |
Un-armed conflict that arose between the United States and the USSR after the end of World War II.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/what%20was%20the%20cold%20war.htm
http://www.coldwar.org
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Society |
People living together in a more or less ordered community.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/american-english/society
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/society |
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Civil society |
It is a society considered as a community of citizens linked by common interests and collective activities.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/civil-society
http://www.giarts.org/article/what-civil-society |