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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Boycott | a refusal to do business with particular people or companies with the intent of pressuring them into changing some political, economic, or social aspect of their operation |
| Civil Disobedience | the refusal to follow certain laws, especially as a means to force the government to change something. Usually nonviolent in its principles, civil disobedience has been a central feature of many American protest movements. |
| Gestapo | the Nazi regime's secret state police that existed in German-held European territory during 1933-1945 |
| Atheism | a philosophy that denies the existence of a god or gods. |
| Gulag | a Russian abbreviation for "Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps," was a system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union that existed from the 1920s to the 1950s. |
| Fascism | a political ideology that originated in South and Central Europe and which was the basis of a mass political movement from 1919 through 1945. |
| Totalitarianism | a type of government that uses force to control the nation's politics, society, and culture. |
| Famine | an extreme lack of food in a geographical area, usually the consequence of an inadequate food supply over an extended period of time. |
| Apartheid | an Afrikaans word meaning "apartness" was the name given to the program of racial segregation implemented in South Africa after World War II. |
| Nationalization | the process of a government taking possession of privately owned businesses and industries. |
| Negritude (Movement) | a literary movement of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s started in France by African and Caribbean writers to protest colonialism and assimilation. |
| Good Neighbor Policy | originated during President Herbert Hoover's term in the late 1920s as a policy of non-intervention in Latin America. |
| The Great Purge | an event during the 1930s in the Soviet Union, eliminated any opposition to Joseph Stalin as he cemented his control of the Communist Party and the Soviet government. |
| Collectivization (of agriculture) | an early-20th-century policy put forth by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, whose goal was to eliminate private farms in favor of collective farms in order to speed industrialization. |
| Anti-Semitism | hostility directed at Jews on political, social, economic, and religious levels. |
| Blitzkrieg | a German word translated as "lightning war," refers to the use of heavy tanks, equipment, and aircraft on an enemy's rear forces rather than making a frontal attack. |
| Authoritarian | a political system that favors a concentration of power in a leader or an elite group of people. |