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| Nazi Party | the political party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power by Hitler in 1933 |
| United Nations | an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security |
| communism | an economic system in which the central government directs all major economic decisions |
| anti-Semitism | prejudice, hatred of or discrimination against Jews, based on their Jewish heritage |
| fascism | a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition |
| appeasement | practice of giving in to an aggressor nation's demands in order to keep peace |
| isolationism | a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations |
| pacifism | opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| Holocaust | the organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII |
| genocide | the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious or cultural group |
| totalitarianism | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) |
| U.S.S.R. | United Soviet Socialist Republic; a former communist country, now known as Russia |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | A 1948 document in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life, liberty, and security; a code of conduct for the treatment of people under the protection of a government |
| Marshall Plan | a plan for aiding the European nations in economic recovery after World War II in order to stabilize and rebuild their countries and prevent the spread of communism |
| NATO | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security between Western European and North American countries |
| Warsaw Pact | a military alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European socialist states, signed in 1955 in response to NATO |
| dictator | a ruler who is unconstrained by law |
