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unconditional surrender
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surrender without conditions
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clemenceau
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French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles
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war guilt clause
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Germany was forced to take complete responsibility for starting World War I
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reparations
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Payment made by a party causing harm to the party incurring that harm.
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polish corridor
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A strip of land between the German territories of Pomerania and East Prussia awarded to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles (1919) to afford access to the Baltic Sea
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czechoslovakia
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formal country of central europe
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transylvania
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A historical region of western Romania bounded by the Transylvanian Alps and the Carpathian Mountains
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hungary
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country of central europe
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yugoslavia
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former country of southeast europe
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league of nations
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A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace.
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angst
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A feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression.
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freud
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Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis
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determinism
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The philosophical doctrine that every state of affairs, including every human event, act, and decision is the inevitable consequence of antecedent states of affairs.
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Rasputin
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an outlandish figure in the court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia
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Soviet worders and soldiers deputies
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lenins supporters
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"means of production"
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are the combination of the means of labor and the subject of labor used by workers to make products.`
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Lenin/Bolsheviks
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Vladimir I. Lenin was a driving force behind the Russian Revolution of 1917 and became the first great dictator of the Soviet Union.
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"white Russians"
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opposed bolsheviks
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Kulaks
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prosperous landed peasant in czarist Russia, characterized by the Communists during the October Revolution as an exploiter.
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collectivization
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A farm or a group of farms organized as a unit and managed and worked cooperatively by a group of laborers under state supervision, especially in a communist country
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New Economic Policy
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the new measures included the return of most agriculture, retail trade, and light industry to private ownership (though the state retained control of heavy industry, banking, transport, and foreign trade) and the reintroduction of money into the economy
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Five-Year Plan
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implemented by Joseph Stalin, concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods.
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heavy industry
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which included all goods that serve as an input required for the production of some other, final good
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consumer goods
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final goods used for consumption
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Cheka
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was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations
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Censorship
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forbiddance; ban
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isolationism
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A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries.
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