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| Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. |
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| (After 1918) A member of the Russian Communist party. |
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| The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, radical, political, or cultural group. |
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| The autobiography (1925-27) of Adolf Hitler, setting forth his political philosophy and his plan for German conquest. |
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| An international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946. |
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| The principle or policy of maintaining a large military establishment |
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| A temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; a truce |
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| The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s. |
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| To assemble or marshal into readiness for active service. |
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| The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. |
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| A widely used reference to October 29, 1929, the date of greatest frenzy on the New York Stock Exchange during the Great Crash, Security prices plunged, volume surged to more than 16 million shares. |
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Combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches.
When both sides are fighting each other in trenches. |
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| The policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements. |
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| Absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution |
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| During World War II, the Axis's were formed by Italy, Japan, and Germany. The Allies were formed by USA, France, Russia, England, and the rest of the world. |
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| To bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment. |
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| A British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of events leading to U.S. entry into World War I. |
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| 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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| The ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy. |
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| Devotion and loyalty to one's own nation; patriotism. |
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| Devotion and loyalty to one's own nation; patriotism. |
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