Glossary
Vocabulary (Sources found below)
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Canteen (noun): an establishment that serves as an informal
social club (for soldiers or a community's teenagers)
Citizenship (noun): the status of being a native or
naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is
entitled to protection from it
Communism (noun) a: a doctrine based on revolutionary
Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official
ideology of the U.S.S.R. b: a totalitarian system of
government in which a single authoritarian party controls
state-owned means of production
Congress (noun): the supreme legislative body of a nation and
especially of a republic
Democracy (noun): a government in which the supreme power is
vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly
through a system of representation usually involving periodically
held free elections
Depot (noun): a building for railroad or bus passengers or
freight
Discharge (verb): to release from service or duty <discharge
a soldier>
Draft (noun): a system for or act of selecting individuals
from a group (as for compulsory military service)
Enlist (verb): to enroll oneself in the armed forces
Homesick (adjective): longing for home and family while
absent from them
Honorable (adjective): attesting to creditable conduct
Reservation (noun): a tract of land set apart by the federal
government for a special purpose, especially one for the use of a
Native American people
Treaty (noun): a contract in writing between two or more
political authorities (as states or sovereigns) formally signed by
representatives duly authorized and usually ratified by the
lawmaking authority of the state
Veteran (noun): a former member of the armed forces
Volunteer (noun): one who enters into military service
proceeding from the will or from one's own choice or consent
War (noun): a state of usually open and declared armed
hostile conflict between states or nations
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