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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.

  3. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 20

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    This applies only when the term is used as the name of a military institution: (The United States Army ordered new weapons; the Army expects to begin testing soon). When used as a common term to describe a military unit or force, do not capitalize (Napoleon's army suffered heavy losses; he ordered his army to retreat).

  4. Eastern Bloc - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the collective term for an unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).

  5. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

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    Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS". Sometimes, a minor word such as a preposition is not capitalized within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In some British English style guides, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Nasa" or ...

  6. Capitalization - Wikipedia

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    Capitalization (American spelling; also British spelling in Oxford) or capitalisation (Commonwealth English; all other meanings) is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case, in writing systems with a case distinction. The term also may refer to the choice of the casing ...

  7. Communism - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, communism is widely used as a pejorative term as part of a Red Scare, much like socialism, and mainly in reference to authoritarian socialism and Communist states. The emergence of the Soviet Union as the world's first nominally Communist state led to the term's widespread association with Marxism–Leninism and the Soviet ...

  8. Republic of China (1912–1949) - Wikipedia

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    In January 1943, both the United States and the United Kingdom led the way in revising their unequal treaties with China from the past. [56] [57] Within a few months a new agreement was signed between the United States and the Republic of China for the stationing of American troops in China as part of the common war effort against Japan. The ...

  9. Socialism - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 December 2024. Political philosophy emphasising social ownership of production For other uses, see Socialism (disambiguation). Part of a series on Socialism History Outline Development French Revolution Revolutions of 1848 Socialist calculation debate Socialist economics Ideas Calculation in kind ...