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==Background== Resistance movements can include any [[irregular military|irregular armed force]] that rises up against an enforced or established authority, [[government]], or [[administration (government)|administration]]. This frequently includes groups that consider themselves to be resisting [[tyranny]] or [[dictatorship]]. Some resistance movements are [[:wikt:underground|underground]] organizations engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under [[military occupation]] or [[totalitarian]] domination. Tactics of resistance movements against a constituted [[authority]] range from [[nonviolent resistance]] and [[civil disobedience]], to [[guerrilla warfare]] and [[terrorism]], or even [[conventional warfare]] if the resistance movement is powerful enough. Any government facing violent acts from a resistance movement usually condemns such acts as [[terrorism]], even when such attacks target only the military or security forces. [[Resistance during World War II]] was mainly dedicated to fighting the [[Axis Powers|Axis]] occupiers. Germany itself also had an anti-Nazi Hitler, [[German resistance movement]] in this period. Although the United Kingdom did not suffer invasion in World War II, preparations were made for a British resistance movement in the event of a German invasion (see [[Auxiliary Units]]).
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