Anarchism | | The imposition of one nation’s government, culture and/or economic needs on another nation. It usually involves conquest, settlement, economic exploitation, administrative control and destruction of indigenous cultures. |
Terrorism | | The belief that the best way for any group of people to operate is to share equality – sharing the work, sharing the income and sharing the goods, such as food, told, clothing and shelter. |
Autocracy | | Taking possession of land (and people) that formerly belonged to another country or existed as an independent state. |
Colonisation | | A rejection of all forms of government. The belief that there should be no organized authority and no state institutions; all forms of government should be replaced by social co-operation based on freedom of individual action. |
Communism | | The attempt to influence politics through violence and intimidation. |
Democracy | | Trying to meet the demands of an aggressor in order to avoid a fight. |
Monarchy | | A state of armed conflict between two clearly identifiable groups. |
Appeasement: | | The rule by one person with unrestricted power. |
Annexation | | A form of government that gives power to the ‘people’. |
Imperialism | | The short name for National Socialism, a form of fascism specific to Germany. |
Nazism | | A system of government in which the head of state is inherited. |
Fascism | | A political system based on common ownership and control of resources and productive processes, which are administered by the government, but in the interests of all the people. |
Socialism | | It occurs when superior weaponry allows a nation-state to take over territory that does not have recognition as a nation-state in European terms. It involves settling the colonized territory with people from the colonizing nation. |
Dictatorship | | A form of government that stresses the power of the state. It is nationalistic and authoritarian. |
War | | A government that is not dependent on the consent of the people being governed. It tolerates neither opposition nor debate. |