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Europe Part II
World War II- Cold War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Holocaust | Nazi genocide of the Jews |
| communism | an economic system with complete government control |
| bloc | a group of countries joined with a common purpose |
| reunification | the process of rejoining the divided zones of Germany |
| dictator | a leader with absolute power |
| police state | a country which uses secret police to control rebels and protestors |
| superpower | a country whose decisions impact world events |
| Hitler | leader of Nazi Germany |
| fascism | a political movement where the nation's needs are put above the individual's needs |
| genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people |
| anti-Semitism | extreme hatred of the Jews |
| Iron Curtain | the boundary between the Eastern and Western Bloc countries during the Cold War |
| Stalin | dictator of the Soviet Union |
| cold war | a war of words that lasted from the 1940s to the 1990s |
| arms race | competition to accumulate nuclear weapons |
| Capitalism | an economic system in which businesses are privately owned |
| Depression | a time of extreme poverty and unemployment after WWI |
| Mussolini | fascist leader of Italy |
| dictatorship | a government system with an absolute leader |
| democracy | a government system in which citizens take part in the decision making |
| Berlin Wall | a guarded division between communist and non-communist Berlin |
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