World history

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Right-wing political ideology based on the idea of national rebirth and the cult of the leader, in which the fascist party gains totalitarian power. The Italian fascists under Benito Mussolini were ...

Levy

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An amount of money, such as a tax, that you have to pay to a government or organization.

Chernobyl accident

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Explosion at a nuclear power plant near Kiev, Ukraine, on 26 April 1986. Meltdown of the core was narrowly avoided and a concrete cap used to seal the damaged reactor, but serious contamination of ...

Domino effect

History; World history

Phrase used by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954 to express the possibility that, if one country turned to communism, adjacent states would follow. The USA feared that South Vietnam's collapse would lead ...

Dalai Lama

History; World history

The traditional ruler of Tibet. The present Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born in 1935 and fled from Tibet after the 1950 Chinese invasion. He returned but fled a second time in 1959, taking refuge ...

Granada

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Region of southern Spain conquered by Muslims from north Africa in 711, and the last Spanish Islamic state to fall to the Reconquista under Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1492.

Jesus of Nazareth

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Teacher and healer (c.6 BC-AD 30) of Judea, believed by Christians to be the Christ, or Son of God. He preached a form of messianic Judaism, but was crucified on the charge of blasphemy against the ...