defeatist policy
1defeatist — /di fee tist/, n. 1. a person who surrenders easily or is subject to defeatism. 2. an advocate or follower of defeatism as a public policy. adj. 3. marked by defeatism. [1915 20; DEFEAT + IST, modeled on F défaitiste] * * * …
2Revolutionary Socialist League (UK) — The Revolutionary Socialist League was the name used by the British section of the Fourth International at two points in the Twentieth century. Both were Trotskyist political parties in the United Kingdom: one existing in the 1930s and 1940s and… …
3HERUT MOVEMENT — HERUT MOVEMENT, Israeli political party, established in June 1948, soon after the establishment of the State, by members of the Irgun Ẓeva i Le ummi on the basis of Ze ev jabotinsky s ideology. In 1949, the Revisionist Party of Israel, which had… …
4German exodus from Eastern Europe — Flight and expulsion of Germans during and after World War II (demographic estimates) Background …
5World War I — the war fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, between the Central Powers and the Allies, beginning on July 28, 1914, and ending on November 11, 1918, with the collapse of the Central Powers. Abbr.: WWI Also called Great War, War of the… …
6international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
7Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
8ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …
9John Maynard Keynes — Keynes redirects here. For other uses, see Keynes (disambiguation). John Maynard Keynes Keynesian economics John Maynard Keynes Born …
10Kingdom of Greece — Βασίλειον τῆς Ἑλλάδος Vasílion tis Elládos ← …
