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Totalitarianism |
Type of government in which people under its power may not be free, is an opressive and centralist ruled type of government. |
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War |
Fighting between two or more countries or groups. |
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Guerilla |
Small group of fighters that make unexpected attacks to their enemy |
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Holocaust |
Sum of actions taken by the Nazi regimen in which ones attented against jew people and many other kinds of ethnic groups. 1933-1945 |
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Genocide |
Violent actions made with the intent of killing a specific ethnic group. |
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Dirty war |
1976-1983 Seven year campaign in which Argentina government acted against dissidents. Dissidents and also innocent people were disappeared in the night and then tortured and killed. Dissidents: people that had the idea of transforming the social order and their stucture in authority and power. |
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Revolution |
Change in a way a country is governed, changing the political system and usually with the use of violence. |
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Dictatorship |
Type of government in which one person or small group has the absolute power over the community. |
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Communism |
Economic system in which the government has the means of production. |
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Cold war |
Silent war between the Soviet Union and the United States fighting for supremacy. |
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Society |
Group of people living together and making desitions for the general good. |
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Civil society |
Voluntary organizations formed by people in that social sphere, its not-governmental. |
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References: |
Encyclopedia Britannica,. (2014). totalitarianism | government. Retrieved 15 January 2016, from http://global.britannica.com/topic/totalitarianism Yadvashem.org,. (2016). The Holocaust - Yad Vashem. Retrieved 15 January 2016, from http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/resource_center/the_holocaust.asp#!prettyPhoto
Econlib.org,. (2016). Communism: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty. Retrieved 15 January 2016, from http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Communism.html |
