Conflicts

Front 1

Totalitarianism

Back 1

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, driven by an ideology reinforced by a secret police, propaganda, the elimination of open criticism of the regime, and use of terror tactics. Internal and external threats are created to foster unity through fear.

Front 2

War

Back 2

An armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups. National wars are said to be offensive or defensive. War is offensive on the part of that government which commits the first act of violence; it is defensive on the part of that government which receives such act. Any active hostility or struggle between living beings; a conflict between opposing forces or principles.

Front 3

Guerilla

Back 3

Type of combat that's fought by a civilian population or other people who aren't part of a typical miltary unit, who are attempting to overthrow an existing government or are rebelling against a much larger, organized military; a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment.

Front 4

Holocaust

Back 4

Mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (among others) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. Adolf Hitler considered Jews were an inferior race, a threat to German racial purity and community. Jews were consistently persecuted, and later on took them to mass killing centers constructed in the concentration camps of occupied Poland.

Front 5

Genocide

Back 5

The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. The deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group.The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Front 6

Dirty War

Back 6

A war conducted by the military or secret police of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents, marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims. A war that is not fought in a conventional way observing the rules of war, but is a clandestine war involving assassinations etc.

Front 7

Revolution

Back 7

An overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.

A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. The usually violent attempt by many people to end the rule of one government and start a new one.

Front 8

Dictatorship

Back 8

Form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations. Absolute, imperious, or overbearing power or control.

A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator.

Front 9

Communism

Back 9

A system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products, also a economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.

Front 10

Cold War

Back 10

The Cold War is the name given to the relationship that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after World War Two, to dominate international affairs for decades. Major crises occurred - the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary and the Berlin Wall being just some. For many, the growth in weapons of mass destruction was the most worrying issue.

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Society

Back 11

An organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.

The people of a particular country, area, time, etc., thought of especially as an organized community. The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.

Front 12

Civil Society

Back 12

The elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary,etc, that make up a democratic society. The part of society that consists of organizations and institutions that help and take care of people, their health, and their rights. It does not include the government or the family. Society considered with common interests and collective activity.