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| Political party founded by Mao and other revolutionaries |
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| the Chinese Communist party |
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| Leader of the Chinese Communists |
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| Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) |
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| Class of people whom Mao sought as his party's base of support |
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| Chaotic condition of China from 1916 through the 1940s |
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| "Father of Modern China" was was (briefly) the first president of the Chinese republic |
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| Nationalist leader in China after Sun Yixian's death |
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| Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) |
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| Nation that sent advisors to help China |
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| the U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union) |
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| Nations that ignored the Nationalists' requests for help |
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| The 6,000 mile trip of the communists to northwest China |
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| Supporters of China's left wing, ejected from the Nationalist party |
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| socialists and communists (or peasants and workers) |
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| Class of people who supported the nationalists |
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| Nickname of Mao's fighting forces |
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| Nation that invaded and took over eastern China in 1937 |
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| New base of the Chinese Communists after their year-long trek |
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| Political party that tried to establish a Chinese republic |
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| the Nationalist party, or the Kuomintang (Guomindang) |
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| China's last dynasty, overthrown in 1912 |
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| Reform movement sparked by student protests in 1919 |
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| China's industrial northern province, invaded by Japan in 1931 |
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| Soviet leader whom Mao and his fellow communists admired |
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| Capital city of both the Nationalists and the occupying Japan |
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| Japanese head of state who wielded no real power |
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| In th 1920s, Japan agreed to limit the size of this part of its military forces. |
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| Element of Japanese society that controlled the government by the 1930s |
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| Need for these fueled Japan's desire to expand |
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| raw materials, or markets for its products |
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| Growth of this fueled Japan's desire to expand. |
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| Neighboring country that Japan invaded in the 1930s |
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| Important source of Japanese wealth, disrupted by the Great Depression |
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| Man who reigned on Japan's throne from 1926 to 1989 |
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| Increased characteristic of Japanese government during the 1920s |
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| Term for extreme nationalists |
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| Northern Chinese province that Japan seized in 1931 |
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| Kellogg-Briand Pact--Japan pledged to renounce this "as an instrument of national policy." |
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| Japan put pressure on this neighbor with the Twenty-One Demands in 1915 |
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| Zaibatsu, people who strongly influenced politics in the 1920s |
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| powerful business leaders |
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| Name of the Japanese Parliament |
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| Values vigorously promoted by the military-dominated government |
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| Japan's name for its puppet state in Manchuria |
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| Int'l body that Japan withdrew from in 1933 b/c of condemnation of Japanese aggression |
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| Indian nationalist leader |
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| Indians' name for Ghandhi, meaning "saintly one" or "Great Soul" |
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| Imperialist country that ruled India as its colony |
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| The way to respond to British shootings and beatings, according to Gandhi |
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| Hindu social system that Gandhi opposed |
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| Britain promised more self-government if Indians fought in this war. |
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| British-made item that Indians boycotted widely |
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| Peaceful protest led by Gandhi to defy the British laws about salt |
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| Deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law |
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| Gandhi's profession, which he practiced in South Africa |
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| Non-Hindu Indian independence group |
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| Gandhi's policy of peaceful resistance through refusing to cooperate with the government |
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| nonviolent noncooperation |
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| India's leading political party |
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| the Indian National Congress (or Congress party) |
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| Indian province where the Amritsa massacre took place in 1919 |
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| Reforms allowed by the Government of India Act of 1935 |
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| local self-government and/or limited democratic elections |
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| Leader of the Muslim League beginning in the 1930s |
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| New goal of the Muslim League under Jinnah |
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| a separate independent state |
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| Social injustice that Gandhi worked against in South Africa |
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| Garment adopted by Gandhi in place of western clothing |
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| the dhoti (or a simple and traditional white garment) |
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| Middle Eastern land promised to both Jews and Arabs by Great Britain |
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| Surname adopted by Turkish leader, meaning "Father of the Turks" |
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| New name of Persia as of 1935 |
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| System of racial segregation and discrimination set up in South Africa |
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| Two rival peoples in Palestine |
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| Revolutionary leader who was the first president of Turkey |
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| People the Arabs fought in return for British support of an Arab state |
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| Policy of modernization followed in Turkey and Iran by Araturk and Reza Shah |
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| North African nation that gained independence in 1922 but was still controlled by Britain |
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| Nationalist movement built on the shared heritage of Arabs |
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| Movement that focused on the unity of all Africans |
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| New Islamic nation founded by Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud |
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| Territories in the Middle East governed by European nations, set up at the end of WWI |
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| Empire that the Turkish Revolution ended |
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| Oil-rich kingdom that gained independence in 1930 |
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| British statement that "viewed with favor" a Jewish "national home" |
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| Army officer who overthrew Iran's shah and set up his own Pahlavi dynasty |
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| Reza Khan (Reza Shah Pahlavi) |
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| West African movement that promoted pride in African roots |
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| Jamaican native who promoted the message "Africa for Africans" |
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| U.S. president who dealt with the Great Depression |
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| Young U.S. women who embraced shocking new freedoms of dress and behavior |
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| Nickname for the boom years in the 1920s in the United States |
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| Movement of people that the United States limited after World War I |
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| Popular, hard-riding rebel from northern Mexico |
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| Business-oriented political party that dominated U.S. national government during the 1920s |
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| The years during which manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the U.S. |
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| U.S. president who said that prosperity was "just around the corner" |
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| Mexican artist famed for his bold, bright murals inspired by folk art |
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| Latin American nations that benefitted from oil reserves |
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| Indian from southern Mexico who led a peasant revolt |
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| Caribbean island nation occupied by U.S. Marines for years |
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| Haiti or the Dominican Republic |
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| U.S. fright stirred up by fear of communists and radicals in 1919-20 |
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| Country in which Augusto Cesar Sandino led a guerrilla movement against U.S. troops |
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| Political party that dominated Mexican politics from 1929 through the 1990s |
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| the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) |
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| Term for female soldiers in the Mexican Revolution |
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| FDR's new policy toward Latin America |
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| "Giant" nickname given the United States by distrustful Latin American nations |
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| Institution that took more control of economics after the war |
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| Condition of many countries because of wartime borrowing |
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| Source of government revenue, very high in many postwar countries |
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| Drastic business collapse of the 1930s |
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| Many of these financial institutions failed in the 1930s. |
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| Condition of 30 million workers in 1932 |
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| Condition caused by demobilizing (disbanding) the armed forces |
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| Common postwar condition of rising prices |
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| Widespread walls that blocked free trade among nations |
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| Investment arena that collapsed in October 1929 |
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| The program of relief and reform in the United States |
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| Law that gave U.S. workers unemployment and old-age benefits for the first time |
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| Group that pressured governments to help with workers' problems |
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| Work stoppage by laborers in many areas of the economy |
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| U.S. farm prices fell because of this. |
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| The International Monetary Conference of 1933 tried to promote this among nations. |
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| Government programs that provided employment for workers |
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| Global activity that dropped by 65 percent in the 1930s |
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| Policy of improving a nation's economy without regard for other countries |
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| Practice of buying stock with only a small cash down payment |
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| Average life span of a French government cabinet |
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| British workers who inspired a general strike |
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| British working-class party that gained power in 1924 |
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| Irish force that fought British troops |
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| the Irish Republican Army |
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| Portion of Ireland that stayed part of the United Kingdom |
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| Line of defenses built along the French-German frontier |
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| German coal and iron valley that French troops attempted to occupy |
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| British prime minister elected with working-class support |
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| The Irish nationalist uprising of 1916, named for a holiday |
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| The independent southern portion of Ireland |
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| the Irish Free State (Eire) |
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| Main characteristic of Eastern European economies |
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| Union of Germany, desired by many Austrians |
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| Form of Hungarian government under Admiral Horthy |
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| Form of government in Poland after the constitutional democracy failed |
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| Owners of most land in Eastern Europe |
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| Because France had so many political parties, it had this type of government. |
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| European nations' agreement to settle future disputes peacefully |
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| French coalition government of socialists and communists |
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| Hungarian communist who seized power in 1919 |
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| One of the Eastern European nations that maintained democratic government |
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| Finland, the Baltic States, or Czechoslovakia |
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| Paris treaty that condemned war as a way of settling disputes |
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| Italy had few industries because it lacked these. |
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| Ethnic group Hitler especially despised |
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| Hitler's book, the "Bible" of the Nazi Movement |
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| Mein Kampf ("My Struggle") |
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| Hitler's secret police force |
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| Name of Hitler's regime, meaning "Third Empire" |
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| Hitler's title, meaning "the leader" |
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| Mussolini's title, meaning "the leader" |
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| Mussolini's political philosophy |
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| Bavarian capital briefly taken over by communists |
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| Germany's lower legislative house; site of a fire in 1933 |
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| Italy didn't have enough food because of these two conditions. |
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| poor land and a large population |
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| General term for government system that controlled almost every part of people's lives |
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| Fascism promoted this feeling towards one's country. |
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| Government in which the leader used armed forces and police to crush opposition |
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| The Italian and German fascist parties were violently opposed to this. |
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| The National Socialist German Workers' Party |
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| Basic principle of fascism |
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| government control over everything |
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| Classes fascism appealed to |
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| the middle and upper classes |
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| Mussolini's fascist supporters |
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| The German federal republic |
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| the Storm Troopers (or Brown Shirts) |
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