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Find the definition of the words listed below with one sentence each.
Fascism
Gulag
Ghetto
Nazism
Deportation
Holocaust
Genocide
Appeasement

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- Fascism: An authoritarian, nationalist political ideology that emphasizes dictatorial leadership, suppression of dissent, centralized state control, and often militarism and xenophobia.
- Gulag: The system of Soviet forced-labor camps and the agency that ran them, where political prisoners and criminals were imprisoned under brutal conditions, especially during Stalin’s rule.
- Ghetto: A segregated urban district where a minority group is compelled or confined to live, often characterized by overcrowding, poverty, and legal or social restrictions.
- Nazism: The ideology of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party combining extreme racial antisemitism and notions of Aryan supremacy with totalitarian state control, expansionist nationalism, and charismatic Führer rule.
- Deportation: The forcible removal and expulsion of people from a country or region by government authorities, typically for political, legal, or security reasons.
- Holocaust: The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and mass murder by Nazi Germany and its collaborators of six million Jews—and millions of others including Roma, disabled people, Poles, Soviet POWs, and political opponents—during World War II.
- Genocide: The intentional and systematic attempt to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
- Appeasement: A diplomatic policy of conceding to an aggressive power’s demands to avoid conflict, often criticized when concessions encourage further aggression.