Unit 1-3 Vocabulary

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a sociopolitical model wherein all property is publically owned and workers are paid according to their abilities and needs

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communism

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Following WWII, the United States and the Soviet Union were considered the two most powerful countries in the world. What was their nickname?

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superpowers

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Rise of ______ (a political movement in Germany, from the end of World War I through the end of World War II; included totalitarian government; promoted nationalism, and racial supremacy. Can be linked to Adolf Hitler)

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Nazism

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information, usually misleading or biased, designed to promote a particular political ideology

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propaganda

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the reintegration of West and East Germany into a single nation in 1990 (Hint: unity)

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reunification

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Revolution against Czar Nicholas II Romanov that led to the monarchy’s overthrow; resulted in the communist takeover by Vladimir Lenin.

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Russian Revolution

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a 91-mile wall surrounding West Berlin from 1961 through 1990

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berlinwall

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known as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars;” a global conflict occurring between 1914 and 1918; primarily in Europe

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worldwarone

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the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler

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Holocaust

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the 1919 treaty which formally brought World War I to an end

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treatyofversailles