2.1 Re-view Fascism And Communism Flashcards
Nazi vs USSR (SU)✅
Nazi
- fascism
- reactionary
- some people are better than others
-  right wing
USSR
-  communist
- radical
- left-wing
What change was made in Nazi  Germany and Soviet Russia✅
Switch from individual and limited government to a collectivist and all powerful state gov
Lenin✅
- Leader of the Bolshevik Party
- believed that violent revolution was the only way to overturn the liberal economic system
-  promised peace land and bread
- follower of marx
- New Economic Policy 
New economic policy✅
- Lenin
- allowed peasants to own farmland
- small business owners given more freedom
- State still controlled banking large industries transportation and foreign-trade
Who came after Lenin✅
Joseph Stalin
 Joseph Stalin✅
- changed the USSR into an industrial nation with significant cost to his ppl
-  strived for centralized economic planning
- 5 year plans (#1industrialization) (#2 electric & steel) (#3 consumer goods)
- implemented collectivization (all land was taken from private landowners and combined to produce collectively worked farms)
- farms worked by Kulaks
- farms became food producing factories with quotas
- Kulaks rebelled and we’re later scapegoated for Stalin to blame
- induced the Great Purge to solidify his rule.
- party members, Red Army officials, and citizens were executed or sent to Gulag forced labor camps
Germany pre Hitler✅
Economic and socially destroyed by treaty of Versailles
Nazi Germany✅
- Right wing totalitarian state
- adopted antisemitism and persecuted Jews and other minorities 
Benito Mussolini✅
Italian dictator who supported fascism and pave the way for Hitler
What principles of liberalism were being rejected in Nazi Germany✅
Political Principles, if it served the state it was allowed
during Hitler✅
- Unemployment dropped
- German industrialists in support of Hitler Flourished
- wanted to achieve autarky (Independence from other nations)
 important events during Hitler’s rule✅
Enabling act 1933
- gave Hitler ultimate power and meant he no longer needed parliaments permission for anything
Night of the Long knives
- The purge of other Nazi leaders by Hitler

Luddite’s✅
Person who opposes new technology or ways of working
Chartists✅
Gain political rates in influence for the working class