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A4. This Act granted Protestant dissenters some religious freedoms
Toleration
A7. This man was the creator and author of the Friend of the People and had enormous influence and sway on the public
Marat
A10. This is the power to defeat a measure in a single vote
Veto
A11. Benito Mussolini created fascism in this country
Italy
A13. When Hitler invaded this country, Great Britain and France finally declared war against Germany
Poland
A16. This US policy sought to keep communism within its present territory
Containment
A19. This is a system of government in which an absolute monarch would rule according to the principles of the Enlightenment
Enlightened Despotism
A21. The Soviet response to NATO was the formation of an alliance with Eastern European countries known as this
Warsaw Pact
A22. Stalin's paranoia led to the large-scale elimination of so-called "traitors" in the..
Purges
A23. This is the time period during the French Revolution where terror and execution were used to control the people of France
Reign Of Terror
A25. This man represented the ideological center of the French Revolution and led the Reign of Terror
Robespierre
A26. This is when people give up their own culture and adopt another culture
Assimilation
A27. This government/political party was extremely nationalistic, anti-Semitic, and anticommunist and it rose to power in Germany in the 1920s
Nazism
A28. This form of government was strongly nationalistic and militaristic, opposed democracy, believed in ownership of private property and it relied on dictatorial rule to maintain rigid control of the people through force and censorship
Fascism
A30. This political party was outlawed in Germany after WWII
Nazi
A31. This was the economic aid program designed to help Europe recover from the destruction of WWII and to help Europe resist communist pressure and expansion
Marshall Plan
A32. In late June 1948, Soviet troops cut all road, rail, and boat traffic to West Berlin and America responded by organizing this
Berlin Airliff
D1. This is the concept where by the people of a country elect and control their government
Popular Sovereignty
D2. Under totalitarian governments , art and the news are always...
Prisoned
D3. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Great Britain had entrepreneurship, technology, land, labor, and capital conditions called the...
Factors Of Production
D5. This was the leader of the Nazi Party
Hitler
D6. This is a company that is owned and run by two or more people
Partnership
D7. This is a form of government where the military's needs, values, and goals shape a nation's civil lifestyles and its domestic and international policies
Militarism
D8. This was the government's selected use of bits of information, both true and false, to get people to support their country's war effort
Propaganda
D9. This is the violent overthrowing of the government
Coup de tat
D12. To keep Russians from continuing to worship, which was banned under communism, this country imprisoned or executed ministers, priests, and rabbis
Soviet Union
D14. A tax on imported goods
Tariff
D15. This is the time period lasting from 1929 to 1941 when prices and wages fell, business activity slowed, and unemployment rose, all in a very brief period of time
Great Depression
D16. This form of government was nationalistic, militaristic, opposed to fascism and democracy, and its economic and political system had complete control over the means of production and economic planning
Communism
D17. When the government controls all aspects of a nation--the economy, laws, and personal lives of it citizens--this type of government is known as...
Totalitarian
D18. This is the American who invented the telegraph and a system for encoding the alphabet
Morse
D20. The German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact was an agreement to remain ____ with each other
Neutral
D24. This 1947 announcement by President Truman to support free people against direct and indirect communist
Truman Doctrine
D29. This is love for one's country rather then one's native region
Nationalism
D33. This is the Enlightenment belief that truth could be found through logical thinking and the scientific method
Rationalism
D34. This philosopher believed that when a social contract is made, people don't give up their individual rights and if the ruler does not uphold individuals' rights,then the people have the right to overthrow the ruler
Locke
D35. These were the modern young women who rejected their previous roles as potential wives and mothers and embraced new attitudes
Floppers