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| 360777504 | Alliance | a formal agreement between two or more nations. The alliance system w as on of the causes leading up to the outbreak of conflict in WWI | 0 | |
| 360777505 | isolationism | a policy of avoiding political of military involvement with other countries | 1 | |
| 360777506 | trench warfare | form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield | 2 | |
| 360777507 | total war | a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort | 3 | |
| 360777508 | rationing | the limiting of the amounts of good people can purchase- often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply | 4 | |
| 360777509 | propaganda | information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponents cause | 5 | |
| 360777510 | armistice | an agreement to stop fighting | 6 | |
| 360777511 | self-determination | the freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live | 7 | |
| 360777512 | mandate | after world war 1 a territory that was administered by a western power- primarily in the former ottoman empire | 8 | |
| 360777513 | soviet | one of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar | 9 | |
| 360777514 | collectivization | the process of transferring ownership from individuals to the state or all the people collectively-in agriculture, requiring farmers to work the land as a group rather than as individual landowners | 10 | |
| 360777515 | communism | an economic system in which all means of production-land, mines, factories, railroads,and businesses- are owned by the people. Private property doesn't exist, and all goods and services are shared equally | 11 | |
| 360777516 | command economy | an economic system in which the government makes economic decisions | 12 | |
| 360777517 | fascism | a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule | 13 | |
| 360777518 | totalitarianism | government control over every aspect of public and private life | 14 | |
| 360777519 | appeasement | the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war | 15 | |
| 360777520 | blitzkrieg | "lightening war"- a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces | 16 | |
| 360777521 | genocide | the systematic killing of an entire people | 17 | |
| 360777522 | demilitarization | a reduction in a country's ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons | 18 |
