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totalitarianism |
Form of government that permits no individual freedom and seeks to subordinate all aspects of the individual's life to the authority.
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war |
Conflict among political groups that leads to act with hostility, causing significant damage during a considerable amount of time.
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guerrilla |
A small-scaled, irregular military force with limited actions.
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holocaust |
The systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II.
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genocide |
From the Greek genos (“race”) and the Latin cide (“killing”),The deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.
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dirty war |
Campaign waged from 1976 to 1983 by Argentina’s military dictatorship against suspected left-wing political opponents.
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revolution |
A significant, radical, and often violent change in government and everything related to it, such as economy or social structure.
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dictatorship |
Government science in which one person or a few several people flawlessly control a territory without any constitutional limitation.
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communism |
A political and economic doctrine which main characteristic is the replacement of private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal management of production.
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cold war |
The rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union–along with their respective allies–that arose after World War II.
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society |
A group of people that live in a certain territory extension, and that live more or less organized.
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civil society |
A society considered as a community of citizens that are linked by collective activity and common interests.
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