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Totalitarianism |
Absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highlycentralized institution. |
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War |
A state or period offighting between countries or groups. |
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Guerrilla |
A member of a usuallysmall group of soldiers who do not belong to a regular army and who fight in awar as an independent unit. |
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Holocaust |
The killing of millions of Jews and other peopleby the Nazis during World War II. |
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Genocide |
The deliberate killing of people who belong to aparticular racial, political, or cultural group. |
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Dirty War |
Infamous campaign waged by Argentina’smilitary dictatorship against suspected left-wing political opponents. |
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Revolution |
The usually violent attempt by many people toend the rule of one government and start a new one. |
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Dictatorship |
Rule by a dictator : rule, control, orleadership by one person with total power. |
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Communism |
A way of organizing a society in which thegovernment owns the things that are used to make and transport products (suchas land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property. |
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Cold War |
The nonviolent conflictbetween the U.S. and the former U.S.S.R. after 1945. |
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Society |
People in general thought of as living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions, and values. |
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Civil Society |
Is the “third sector” of society, along with government and business. |
