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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nationalism | strong pride in one's nation or ethnic group. |
| Colonialism | A system by which a country maintains colonies outside its borders. |
| Austria-Hungary | In the 1900s, a dual monarchy in which the Hapsburg emperor ruled both Austria and Hungary. |
| dual monarchy | A form of government in which one ruler governs two nations. |
| World War 1 | A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies (Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and the United States) and the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Turkey, and Bulgaria). |
| alliance | an agreement among people or nations to unite for a common cause and to help any alliance member that is attacked. |
| Adolf Hitler | a Nazi man who wanted to get rid of all of the Jews and also he started World War 2. |
| fascism | a political philosophy that promotes a strong, central government controlled by the military and led by a powerful dictator. |
| Holocaust | the organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War 2. |
| World War 2 | a war fought from 1939 to 1945 between Axis powers (Germany Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States). |
| NATO | the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defense alliance formed in 1949, with the countries of Western Europe, Canada, and the United States agreeing to defend one another if attacked. |
| Iron Curtain | a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after World War 2, restricting their ability to travel outside the region. |
| puppet government | a government that is controlled by an outside force. |
| one-party system | a system in which there is only one political party and only one candidate to choose from for each government position. |
| Joseph Stalin | he was the ruler of the soviet union during World War 2. |
| collective farm | a government-owned farm that employs large number of workers, often in Communist countries. |
| Warsaw Pact | a treaty signed in 1955 that established an alliance among the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. |
| Cold War | after World War 2, a period of political noncooperation between the members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations, during which these countries refused to trade or cooperate with each other. |
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