27 Flashcards
Totalitarianism
A radical dictatorship that exercises total claims over the beliefs and behavior of its citizens by taking control of the economic, social, intellectual, and cultural aspects of society
Fascism
A movement characterized by extreme often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military
Eugenics
A pseudoscientific doctrine that maintains that the selective breeding of human beings can improve the general characteristics of national population, which helped inspire Nazi ideas about race and space and ultimately contributed to the Holocaust
5-year plan
A plan lost by Stalin in 1928 and it turns a revolution from above, aimed at modernizing the Soviet Union and created a new communist society with new attitudes and new loyalties and a new socialist humanity
Knew economic policy NEP
Lennon’s 1921 policy to reestablish limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration
Collectivisation of agriculture
The forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large state-controlled enterprises in the Soviet Union under Stalin
Kulaks
The better off peasant who were stripped of land in livestock under Stalin and were generally not permitted to join collective farms many of them starved or were deported to forced labor camps for re-education
Black shirts
private militia that destroys socialist newspapers, union halls, and socialist party headquarters, eventually pushing socialist out of the city governments of Northern Italy
Lateran agreement
A 1929 agreement that recognized the Vatican as an independent state with Mussolini agreeing to give the church heavy financial support and return for public support from the Pope
National socialism
A movement and political party driven by extreme nationalism and racism, who lied about Adolf Hitler, it’s adherents ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 and forced Europe into world war II
Enabling act
And act pushed through the right staggered by the Nazis that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for 4 years
Appeasement
The British policy toward Germany prior to world war II that aimed at granting Hitler whatever he want to, including Western Czechoslovakia in order to avoid war
New order
Hitler’s program based on a radical imperialism which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples the French, and inferior Latin people occupied a middle position and slaves and Jews were treated harshly as subhumans
Holocaust
The systematic effort of the Nazi state to exterminate all European Jews and other groups deemed recently inferior during the second world war
