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Information, ideas or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, nation, etc.
 
Propanganda
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A widely used referenced to October 29 1929, the date of the greatest frenzy on the New York Stock Exchange during the Great Crash. Security prices plunged, volume surged to more than 16 million shares.
 
Black Tuesday
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After 1918, a member of the Russian Communist party.
 
Bolsheviks
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Combat in which each side occupies a systemof protective trenches.
 
Trench Warfare
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The deliberate and systematic extermination of national, racial, political or cultural group.
 
Genocide
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The policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter o alliances, foreign economic commitments or ernational agreements.
 
Isolationism
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The autobiography of Adolf Hilter, setting forth his political philosophy and his plan for German conquest.
 
Mein Kampf
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Absolute control by the state of a governing branch of a highly centralized institution.
 
Totalitarianism
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The principal or policy of maaining fo large military establishment.
 
Militarism
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During the WWII, the Axis were formed by Italy, Japan and Germany.
 
Axis Powers
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A terporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties, truce.
 
Armistice
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To bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm or contentment.
 
Appeasement
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The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the US and other countries roughly beginning with the stock market crash in October 1929 and continuing through most of the 1930s.
 
Great Depression
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A British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915; one of the events leading to the US entry in World War I.
 
Lusitania
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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.
 
Imperialism
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To assemble or marshal o readiness for active service.
 
Mobilization
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The ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and the state control of the economy.
 
Nazism
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The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
 
Holocaust
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Devotion and loyalty to one's own nation; patriotism.
 
Nationalism
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A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the oppostion through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
 
Fascism
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