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Provisional Goverment
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a temporary goverment, for the purpose of writing a constitution.
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Abdication
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the process of a monarch stepping down from a throne: sometimes voluntarly, sometimes under threat.
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totalitarianism
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goverment control over every aspect of public and private life.
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Communism
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socialist economy combined with totalitarianism
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Fascism
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a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, a denial of individual rights, and dictorial one-party rule.
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Nazi
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Hitlers Political party; National German Socialist Workers Party
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Ahimsa
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Gandhi's concept of non-violence
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civil disobedience
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a deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust
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Fourteen Points
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a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for acheiving a lasting peace after world war 1
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Militarism
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A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war
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Treaty of Versailles
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the peace treaty signed by Germany and the allied powers after world war 1
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Big Three
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Authors of the Treaty of Versailles; Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin
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League of Nations
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International Organization which was to give potential enemies a way to talk out their diffrences
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Central Powers
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World War 1, the nations of Germany and Austria Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side
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Allies
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In world War 1, The nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with other nations that fought on their sides; also; the group of nations--including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, England, and the U.S.
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U.S.S.R.
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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intelligentsia
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Russian Intellectuals
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Five-Year Plans
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plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the devolpment of the Soviet Union's Economy
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Collectivization
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Stalins Confiscation of privately owned farms
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Collective Security
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the concept of protection of countries by forming defensive Alliances
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