Table of Contents
107 relations: Allies of World War II, American and British English spelling differences, Anarchism, Ancien régime, Anti-fascism, Arbeit macht frei, Arbeitslager, Łapanka, Burma Railway, Chain gang, China, Chinese Communist Party, Civilian Inmate Labor Program, Clergy, Communism, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Conscription, Corrective labor colony, Corvée, Cultural Revolution, Cyrenaica, Deng Xiaoping, El Nuevo Herald, Empire of Japan, Extermination camp, Extermination through labour, Forced labor in Nazi concentration camps, Forced labor of Germans after World War II, Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union, Forced labour, Forced labour under German rule during World War II, Galley, Gendarmerie of Haiti, Goli Otok, Grand coalition, Gulag, Haitian Americans, Hansson III cabinet, Huguenots, International Labour Organization, Italian concentration camps in Libya, Jacobin (magazine), Katorga, Kazincbarcika, Kistarcsa, Kulak, Kuomintang, Kwalliso, Left Party (Sweden), List of Nazi concentration camps, ... Expand index (57 more) »
- Penal labour
- Prison camps
- Total institutions
Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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American and British English spelling differences
Despite the various English dialects spoken from country to country and within different regions of the same country, there are only slight regional variations in English orthography, the two most notable variations being British and American spelling.
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Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.
Ancien régime
The ancien régime was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility and in 1792 through its execution of the king and declaration of a republic.
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Anti-fascism
Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals.
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Arbeit macht frei
Arbeit macht frei is a German phrase translated as "Work makes one free" or more idiomatically "Work sets you free" or "work liberates".
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Arbeitslager
Arbeitslager is a German language word which means labor camp.
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Łapanka
Łapanka (English: "roundup" or "catching") was the Polish name for a World War II practice in German-occupied Poland, whereby the German SS, Wehrmacht and Gestapo rounded up civilians on the streets of Polish cities.
Burma Railway
The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma (now called Myanmar).
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Chain gang
A chain gang or road gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment. Labor camp and chain gang are penal labour.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Civilian Inmate Labor Program
The Civilian Inmate Labor Program is a program of the United States Army provided by Army Regulation 210–35.
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Clergy
Clergy are formal leaders within established religions.
Communism
Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa, KSČ) was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992.
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Conscription
Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.
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Corrective labor colony
A corrective colony (ispravitelnaya koloniya, ИК/IK) is the most common type of prison in Russia and some other post-Soviet states. Labor camp and corrective labor colony are penal labour.
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Corvée
Corvée is a form of unpaid forced labour that is intermittent in nature, lasting for limited periods of time, typically only a certain number of days' work each year.
Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Cyrenaica
Cyrenaica or Kyrenaika (Barqah, Kurēnaïkḗ, after the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya.
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989.
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El Nuevo Herald
El Nuevo Herald is a newspaper published daily in Spanish in Southeast Florida, United States.
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Empire of Japan
The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.
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Extermination camp
Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust.
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Extermination through labour
Extermination through labour (or "extermination through work", Vernichtung durch Arbeit) is a term that was adopted to describe forced labor in Nazi concentration camps whose inmates were held in inhumane conditions and suffered a high mortality rate; in some camps most prisoners died within a few months of incarceration.
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Forced labor in Nazi concentration camps
Forced labor was an important and ubiquitous aspect of the Nazi concentration camps which operated in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945.
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Forced labor of Germans after World War II
In the years following World War II, large numbers of German civilians and captured soldiers were forced into labor by the Allied forces.
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Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union
Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union was considered by the Soviet Union to be part of German war reparations for the damage inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during the Axis-Soviet campaigns (1941–1945) of World War II.
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Forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.
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Forced labour under German rule during World War II
The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale.
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Galley
A galley was a type of ship which relied mostly on oars for propulsion that was used for warfare, trade, and piracy mostly in the seas surrounding Europe.
Gendarmerie of Haiti
The Gendarmerie of Haiti (Gendarmerie d'Haïti), also known as the Haitian Constabulary, was a gendarmerie raised by the United States during its occupation of Haiti in the early 20th century.
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Goli Otok
Goli Otok (Isola Calva) is a barren, uninhabited island that was the site of a political prison which was in use when Croatia was part of Yugoslavia.
Grand coalition
A grand coalition is an arrangement in a multi-party parliamentary system in which the two largest political parties of opposing political ideologies unite in a coalition government.
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Gulag
The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. Labor camp and Gulag are penal labour.
Haitian Americans
Haitian Americans (Haïtiens-Américains; ayisyen ameriken) are a group of Americans of full or partial Haitian origin or descent.
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Hansson III cabinet
The third cabinet of Per Albin Hansson (Regeringen Hansson III) was the cabinet of Sweden between 13 December 1939 and 31 July 1945.
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Huguenots
The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.
International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards.
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Italian concentration camps in Libya
During the Italian colonization of Libya, the Kingdom of Italy operated several concentration camps.
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Jacobin (magazine)
Jacobin is an American socialist magazine based in New York.
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Katorga
Katorga (p; from medieval and modern) was a system of penal labor in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (see Katorga labor in the Soviet Union). Labor camp and Katorga are penal labour.
Kazincbarcika
Kazincbarcika is an industrial town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary.
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Kistarcsa
Kistarcsa is a town in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary.
Kulak
Kulak (a; plural: кулаки́, kulakí, 'fist' or 'tight-fisted'), also kurkul or golchomag (plural), was the term which was used to describe peasants who owned over of land towards the end of the Russian Empire.
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.
Kwalliso
Kwalliso or kwan-li-so is the term for political penal labor and rehabilitation colonies in North Korea. Labor camp and Kwalliso are penal labour.
Left Party (Sweden)
The Left Party (Vänsterpartiet, V) is a socialist political party in Sweden.
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List of Nazi concentration camps
According to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, there were 23 main concentration camps (Stammlager), of which most had a system of satellite camps.
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Liu Shaoqi
Liu Shaoqi (24 November 189812 November 1969) was a Chinese revolutionary and politician.
May Seventh Cadre School
May Seventh Cadre Schools were a system of rural communes in China established during the Cultural Revolution to train Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres to follow the mass line, including through the use of manual labor.
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Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (November 26, 1949 – July 5, 2012) was a Haitian American academic and anthropologist.
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Military Units to Aid Production
Military Units to Aid Production or UMAPs (Unidades Militares de Ayuda a la Producción) were agricultural forced labor camps operated by the Cuban government from November 1965 to July 1968 in the province of Camagüey. Labor camp and Military Units to Aid Production are penal labour.
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Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia)
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (MVD; Министерство внутреннихдел, Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del) is the interior ministry of Russia.
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Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Mittelbau-Dora (also Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora) was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany.
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Natur & Kultur
Natur & Kultur is a Swedish publishing foundation with head office in Stockholm known for an extensive series of teaching materials.
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Nazi concentration camps
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe. Labor camp and Nazi concentration camps are total institutions.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Nazism
Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.
New Statesman
The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.
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Northwestern Youth Labor Camp
The Northwestern Youth Labor Camp was a Chinese labor camp for politically suspect youth established during the Chinese Civil War by order of Kuomintang Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on 1 February 1940.
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Orphans in the Soviet Union
At certain periods the Soviet state had to deal with large numbers of orphans and other kinds of street children — due to a number of turmoils in the history of the country from its very beginnings.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Pacific War
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.
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Penal colony
A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. Labor camp and penal colony are penal labour.
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Penal labour
Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour.
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Per Albin Hansson
Per Albin Hansson (28 October 1885 – 6 October 1946) was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save for a short-lived crisis in the summer of 1936, which he ended by forming a coalition government with his main adversary, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp.
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Political prisoner
A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity.
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Prison
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is a facility where people are imprisoned against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes. Labor camp and prison are total institutions.
Prison farm
A prison farm (also known as a penal farm) is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts are forced to work legally or illegally on a farm (in the wide sense of a productive unit), usually for manual labor, largely in the open air, such as in agriculture, logging, quarrying, and mining. Labor camp and prison farm are penal labour.
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Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
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Prisons in North Korea
Prisons in North Korea (often referred to by Western media and critics as "North Korean gulags") have conditions that are unsanitary, life-threatening and are comparable to historical concentration camps.
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Radio Free Asia
Radio Free Asia (RFA) is an American government-funded non-profit corporation operating a news service that broadcasts radio programs and publishes online news, information, and commentary for its audiences in Asia.
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Re-education through labor
Re-education through labor (RTL), abbreviated laojiao was a system of administrative detention in mainland China.
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Recsk
Recsk is a large village in Heves County, Hungary, under the Mátra mountain range, beside of the Parádi-Tarna creek.
Recsk forced labor camp
Recsk forced labor camp was a forced labor camp in the communist era in Hungary operated by the State Protection Authority (ÁVH) between October 1950 and the fall of 1953, near the quarry of the Csákány-kő hill, next to the village of Recsk in Heves county. Labor camp and Recsk forced labor camp are penal labour.
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Riksdag
The Riksdag (also riksdagen or Sveriges riksdag) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of the Kingdom of Sweden.
Roger Gaillard
Roger Gaillard (Port-au-Prince, 10 April 1923 – 2000) was a Haitian historian and novelist.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
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Sajóbábony
Sajóbábony is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern Hungary.
Sciences Po
Sciences Po or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Institut d'études politiques de Paris), is a private and public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of grande école and the legal status of.
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Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.
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Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.
Social democracy
Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Stalinism
Stalinism is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin.
State Peace and Development Council
The State Peace and Development Council (နိုင်ငံတော် အေးချမ်းသာယာရေး နှင့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး ကောင်စီ; abbreviated SPDC or) was the official name of the military government of Burma (Myanmar) which, in 1997, succeeded the State Law and Order Restoration Council (နိုင်ငံတော် ငြိမ်ဝပ်ပိပြားမှု တည်ဆောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့; abbreviated SLORC or) that had seized power under the rule of Saw Maung in 1988.
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State Protection Authority
The State Protection Authority (Államvédelmi Hatóság, ÁVH) was the secret police of the People's Republic of Hungary from 1945 to 1956.
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Street children
Street children are poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village.
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
Syndicalism
Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the labour movement that, through industrial unionism, seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes, with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of production and the economy at large through social ownership.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
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Tiszalök
Tiszalök is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
Trade union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.
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United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.
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United States occupation of Haiti
The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City Bank of New York convinced the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, to take control of Haiti's political and financial interests.
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Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.
V-2 rocket
The V2 (lit), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.
Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference (Yaltinskaya konferentsiya), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
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1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état
In late February 1948, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia through a coup d'état.
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See also
Penal labour
- Albert Pel
- Aşkale labor camp
- Bagne
- Brăila Pond labor camps
- Carl Halfar Uniformen-Mützen Fabrik
- Chain gang
- Convict assignment
- Convictism in Australia
- Corrective labor colony
- Crank machine
- Danube–Black Sea Canal
- Degredado
- Fort Quélern
- Gorgona Agricultural Penal Colony
- Gulag
- Hoheneck Fortress
- Hortobágy labor camps
- Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
- Irish slaves myth
- Katorga
- Katorga labor (Soviet Union)
- Kwalliso
- Labor camp
- Military Units to Aid Production
- Penal Servitude Act
- Penal colonies
- Penal colony
- Penal colony of New Caledonia
- Penal labor in China
- Penal labor in the United States
- Penal labour
- Penal labour in the United Kingdom
- Penal transportation
- Penal treadmill
- Periprava labor camp
- Prison farm
- Recsk 1950–1953: The Story Of A Secret Concentration Camp In Communist Hungary
- Recsk forced labor camp
- Ross Island Penal Colony
- Sweatshop
Prison camps
- Aşkale labor camp
- Labor camp
Total institutions
- Barracks
- Boarding school
- Boarding schools
- Canadian Indian residential school system
- Concentration camp
- County home (Ireland)
- Harem
- Internment
- Labor camp
- Lunatic asylum
- Monasteries
- Monastery
- Nazi concentration camps
- Orphanage
- Orphanages
- Prins Hendrik Barracks
- Prison
- Prisoner-of-war camp
- Prisons
- Psychiatric hospital
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Rankenheim
- Residential education
- Russian filtration camps for Ukrainians
- Samchung re-education camp
- Second Boer War concentration camps
- Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School
- Total institution
- Xinjiang internment camps
References
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