Authoritarian States

Question 1

Totalitarianism

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Fascism

Answer 2

A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, snit socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military.

Question 3

Eugenics

Answer 3

A pseudoscientific doctrine that maintains that the selective breaking of human beings can improve the general characteristics of a national population which helped inspire Nazi ideas about rave and space and ultimately contributed to the Holocaust

Question 4

Five-year plan

Answer 4

A plan launched by Stalin in 1928 that aimed at modernizing the Soviet Union

Question 5

New Economic Policy

Answer 5

Lenin’s 1921 policy to re-establish limited economic freedom

Question 6

Collectivization of Agriculture

Answer 6

The forcible consolidation of peasant farms into the larger farms of the state

Question 7

Kulaks

Answer 7

The wealthy peasants who were stripped of land and livestock under Stalin and were generally not permitted to join collective farms; many of them starved or were deported to labor camps

Question 8

Kronstadt Sailors

Answer 8

Tough soldiers like our special forces could go take care of any problems

Question 9

Kronstadt Rebellion

Answer 9

The sailors held up in the fort and then repelled one attack but not the second some sailors made the 8 mile journey across ice to Finland.

Question 10

War Communism

Answer 10

When the government has complete control forcing the workers to work for low wages to make the maximum amount of output possible

Question 11

What remained nationalized under the NEP?

Answer 11

Banks, Communications, and Transportation

Question 12

Who was Lenin’s chosen successor?

Answer 12

He didn’t have a successor

Question 13

Who won out between Stalin and Trotsky?

Answer 13

Stalin

Question 14

What happened to Trotsky after he lost to Stalin?

Answer 14

He was banished to Siberia and later kicked out of the country. He was killed in 1940 in Mexico by a Spanish Communist.

Question 15

What were Stalin’s pros and cons during his campaign?

Answer 15

He was a good organizer, but a bad speaker, but he could get people to like him because he had a strong base since he was so organized.

Question 16

What were Trotsky’s pros and cons during his campaign?

Answer 16

He was a charismatic speaker who’s seen the world and what’s worked and what hasn’t worked but he was not as strong as Stalin politically and he wasn’t seen as patriotic since he had lived outside of the country

Question 17

What year were the five year plans in effect?

Answer 17

1928-38

Question 18

What were the gorals for the first five years both industrially and agriculturally?

Answer 18

They were to raise industrial output by 250% and agricultural output by 150%

Question 19

How many years did Stalin say Russia was behind the west?

Answer 19

50 or 100

Question 20

The effects of collectivization of agriculture

Answer 20

Mass chaos and resistance from the peasants

Question 21

Under Stalin how much Farmland was able to be privately owned?

Answer 21

4%

Question 22

Out of that 4% that was privately owned what was the percentage of crops being produced by the entire nation.

Answer 22

22%

Question 23

What happened to the number of horses, cattle, sheep, and goats in the soviet union between 1929 and 1933

Answer 23

It was cut in half

Question 24

How did the first five year plan actually turn out in terms of agriculture

Answer 24

It was not good. Agriculture barely increased

Question 25

What was the Soviet response when Ukrainian leaders reported that their people were starving?

Answer 25

They didn’t care they kept taking food away from them

Question 26

What was the result of the starvation in Ukraine?

Answer 26

A terrible man-made famine

Question 27

What was the direct cost of collectivization

Answer 27

Millions of deaths more than the total number that died in WWI

Question 28

Gosplan

Answer 28

A committee that oversaw industry in Russia

Question 29

What were the products that the USSR were making?

Answer 29

Industrial products. They were not making consumer products so not as much money was being made off them.

Question 30

How many people migrated to the cities in the 1930’s?

Answer 30

More than 25 million people