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Totalitarianism |
absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highlycentralized institution.
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War |
A period were contries or people compete or fight to acomplish something
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Guerrilla |
independent unit of soldiers who fight
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Holocaust |
Jews were murdered duting the World War l by Nazis in concentration camps
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Genocide |
the destruction of a cultural group
(merriam-wbester)
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Dirty War |
The name given by Argentina´s government to the terrorist attacks to Argentina between 1974-1983
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Dictatorship |
one person takes unlimited control over something or someone
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Communism |
A political theory by Karl Marx. All is publicly owned and everyone is paid as it sholud be
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Cold War |
A non weapon war between USSR and USA. It actually was a competition about technologies and acomplish stuff something before the other one
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Society |
A group of people that live in a determinated social system
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Civil Society |
A group of people linked by interests
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Revolution |
A forceful overthrow of the government or any grand change by the people
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Militarianism |
A policy in which military preparedness is of primary importance to a state. |
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Self-Determination |
Determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion; free will. |
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Triple Alliances |
The secret alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed in 1882 and lasting until 1914 |
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Triple Ententes |
an understanding between Great Britain, France, and Russia before World War I to counterbalance the Triple Alliance |
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Propaganda |
Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc |
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League of Nations |
A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. |
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Nationalism |
Devotion, especially excessive or undiscriminating devotion, to the interests or culture of a particular nation-state |
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Imperialism |
The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies |
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Conservationism
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disagreement with the change and new ideas
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social democracy
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when both socialist and capitalist politics are used.
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Christian democracy
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The beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
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centre-left
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used to describe a political belief that contains some socialist ideas but is not extreme
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bipolarity
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It means that the two sides (the US and the Soviet Union) were polarised at opposite ends of the spectrum and every other country drifted to one side or the other.
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mirror policy
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Each side, American domestic and foreign policy reflected virulent anticommunism, while deep suspicion of the "West" typified the Soviet Leadership.
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MAD
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In 1949 was signed by the President on the 6th October - only two weeks, incidentally, after it had been publicly revealed that the first atomic explosion in the USSR had been detected.
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satelites countries
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A country or political unit under the domination of a foreign power.
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western block
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It refers during the Cold War refers to the countries allied with the United States and NATO against the Soviet Union and its allies.
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soviet block
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It was the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries that were communist.
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