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Fascism
History; World history

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 ...

Fashoda crisis
History; World history

(1898) Incident on the upper Nile River. British troops under Kitchener encountered a French force and after diplomatic exchanges France was forced to withdraw and abandon all ...

Fatimid caliphate
History; World history

Shiite dynasty. The Fatimids conquered Egypt in 969, proclaimed a rival caliphate to the Abbasids, and from the new capital of Cairo they became the leading Mediterranean power ...

February Revolution
History; World history

The overthrow of Nicholas II of Russia in February 1917, precipitated by heavy defeats in World War I and social and economic problems. The provisional government that took power ...

Federal Republic of Germany
History; World history

Republic created on 23 September 1949 from western-occupied Germany, when it had become clear that Cold War rivalry would not permit reunification of Germany. Under Conrad ...

Fenian Brotherhood
History; World history

(From Fianna - Irish folk heroes) The name used by James Stephens (1824-1901) for his revolutionary Irish nationalist movement of the 1860s, which aimed to secure a republican ...

Ferdinand I
History; World history

Holy Roman emperor (r.1558-64). Younger brother of Charles V, he acted as his deputy in Germany for over 30 years, and persuaded Charles to compromise with Protestantism in the ...

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