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War |
A conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations. |
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Totalitarianism |
Absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution. |
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Guerrilla |
A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary force operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy, as by surprise raids. |
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Holocaust |
the killing of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. |
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Genocide |
the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. |
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Dirty War |
a war conducted by the military or secret police of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the regime's use of kidnapping, torture, and murder, with members of the civilian population often the victims. |
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Revolution |
a repudiation and the replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. |
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Dictatorship |
a country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator. |
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Cold War |
rivalry after World War II between the Soviet Union and its satellites and the democratic countries of the Western world, under the leadership of the United States. |
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Society |
an organized group of persons associated together for religious, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. |
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Civil society |
the elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary, etc, that make up a democratic society |
