Ends with "SHIP"
Country with one ruler with all the power
Dictatorship
Carries people and other burdens through the desert
Camel
World War II Russia
Stalin
The Magic Flute
Mozart
Finishing College
Graduation
Free media won't survive with this
Censorship
No ice cream without this animal!
Cow
Gained independence for India
Ghandi
Fidelio
Beethoven
Soldiers ready to march
Formation
Authors hope they get great
Readership
Gives milk for specialty cheeses ... no not a cow this time!
Goat or Sheep (Either answer is acceptable)
This American shares part of his name with a German reformer of the 15th and 16th centuries
Martin Luther King Jr.
La Traviata
Verdi
Not enough water in your body
Dehydration
Since we live here, we all have an American
Citizenship
Supplies the Ivory that people get illegally
Elephant
Iran prior to revolution
Shah Reza Pahlavi
Faust
Gounod
All the people in one country
Population
When someone always has to be/do something better
One-upmanship
Bird known for flying, then diving and catching fish
Cormorant
Longtime Chinese Party leader
Mao Zedong / Mao Tse-Tsung
Gershwin
Claim someone has done something wrong
Accusation