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Famine: when people or animals die of hunger.

Fascism: extreme nationalist political movement; the Fascist Party ideology, formed in Italy by Mussolini in 1919.

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation):

Fealty: an oath of loyalty by a vassal to a lord, promising to perform specified services.

Federal: central government of a state divided into smaller units with considerable power.

Federation: a system of government in which several countries or regions form a unity but still manage to remain self-governing in internal affairs.

Feudal dues: during the Middle Ages, payments made to a land owner by peasants living on their land, in return for rights such as using the lord's mill to grind their corn, or fishing in the lord's rivers. These dues were deeply resented.

Feudal society: medieval social structure based on land holding. The social, political, military, and economic system that prevailed in the Middle Ages and beyond in some parts of Europe.


 * Feudalism:** an ancient (medieval) system of rights and privileges connected with landholding. Under the feudal system, a major landowner had the right to demand rent plus various other money payments and sometimes also work from the peasants who lived on his or her land.


 * Fief:** land granted to a vassal in exchange for services, usually military.

Finance capital: money for investment.

Final Solution:

Fixed ratio: a scheme whereby Germany would agree not to increase the number of ships beyond a certain percentage of the British fleet (1935).

**Flattery: ** excessive or insincere praise

Flogged: whipped.

Formal annexation: taking over full control of a territory by another power.

Fortified: a place or building strengthened against attack with walls or ditches.

Franchise: the right to vote in elections.

Free trade: trade between nations unimpeded by tariffs.

Free trade zone: an area where countries can trade freely without restrictions.

Freikorps: right-wing group of World War One ex-soldiers; a private army.

Fulfilment: a policy aimed by Germany at extracting concessions from Britain and France by attempting to fulfil the Treaty of Versailles (mostly during 1920s)

Furnishing: provision.


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