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17 Cards in this Set
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Proletariat
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In Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia
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Totalitarianism
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Government control over every aspect of public and private life
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Command Economy
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An economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions
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Collective Farms
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A large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms
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Civil Disobeince
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A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust
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Existentialism
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A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions
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Surrealism
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A 20th-century artistic movement that focuses on the workings of the unconscious minds
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Fascism
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A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule
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Appeasement
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The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war
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Isolationism
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A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries
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Demilitarization
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A reduction in a country's ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons
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Nonaggression Pact
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An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another
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Genocide
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The systematic killing of an entire people
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Kamikaze
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During World War II, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them
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Blitzkrieg
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"lightning war" -- a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces
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Know where Japan, China, Manchuria, Soviet Union, and Korea are
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Know where Germany, France, Sweden, Poland, and Italy are
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