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01/14/2015

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Nationalism
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Intense loyalty toward one's own country and culture.
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Imperialism
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The acquisition of overseas territories.
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Militarism
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Massive build-ups of armaments and armies.
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Dictatorship
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A form of government in which one person or group has absolute power.
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Nazi
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A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
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Appeasement
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Process or action of appeasing. "Give up" "Let it go".
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Mein Kampf
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"My Struggles" Ideology base for the Nazi party racist beliefs and murderous practices. Published in 1925, this work detailed Hitler's radical ideas of nationalism and antisemitism, anti-Bolshevism and social Darwinism which advocated survival to the fittest.
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Kristallnacht
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AKA Night of Broken glass, On Nov 19,1983, almost 200 synagogues were destroyed, over 8000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted. Tens of thousands of Jews were removed to Concentration camps.
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Reparation
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The making of amendments for a wrong one has done,by paying money to otherwise help those who have been wronged, (Ex) Compensation for war damage paid by a defeated state.
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Collective Security
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The cooperation of several countries in an alliance to strengthen the security of each.
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Attrition
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A gradual reduction in number or strength because of stress or military reduction.
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Schlieffen-Plan
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Was a 1905 German general staff thought-experiment which later became a deployment plan and set of recommendation for German commanders to implement using their own initiative.
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Conscription
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Compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
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Concentration Camp
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A guarded compound of detention or imprisonment of aliens, political opponents, ethnic minorities. Especially any of the camp establishment by the nazis prior to and during WW2 for the confinement and persecution of prisoners.
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Propaganda
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The organized spread of ideas, doctrines, etc. To promote a cause; ideas to spread.
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Alliance
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Reduce vulnerability to attack by agreeing to support eachother
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Ghetto
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A section of a city in which members of a minority group live, esp. because of social, legal or economic pressure.
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U-Boat
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a German submarine used in WW1 or WW2.
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Suffrage
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The right to vote in election.
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Expulsion
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To act of being expelled or expelling.
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Extermination
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Destroy extermination.
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Armistice
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A truce, preliminary to peace treaty.
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Abdicate
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To renounce an official position or responsibility, etc.
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Internment Camp
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League of Nations
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An international organization established after WW1, under provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
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Great Depression
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A severe world wide economic depression in the decade preceding WW2, The timing of the GD raised across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930's or middle 1940's.
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Segregation
Definition
When the cultural groups isolate themselves.
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Fascism
Definition
A right wing political system that permits private ownership of property within an authoritarian national government.Italy under Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), and German under Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) has fascist governments that had a strong military to maintain control over civil society and the economy.
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Genocide
Definition
Systematic and deliberate attempt to kill all members of an ethnic or other cultural or social group.
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Holocaust
Definition
Nazi Germany's systematic extermination of 6 million European Jews (1941-1945)
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Sanctions
Definition
Military or economic measures by which one or more countries try to force another country to respect international law and human rights.(EX) Stopping trade or aid.
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Resistance
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The refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.
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Isolationist
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A person who works for isolationism (A national policy of obstaining from political or economic relations with other countries.
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Anti-Semitism
Definition
Hostility or prejudice against Jews.
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Hundred Days
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The final period of WW1, the Allies launched a series of offensives against the Central Powers. (8 August-November 11)
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Trench
Definition
A long narrow channel in the Earth used for drainage, used for military purposes
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