Authoritarian States/Totalitarian States (Ch's 5 & ^)

Question 1

Authoritarian States

Answer 1

Gov’t in which all legitimate power rests in one person (dictatorship), or a small group of persons (oligarchy), individual rights are subordinate to the wishes of the state, and all means necessary are used to maintain political power

Question 2

Junta

Answer 2

General or President is in charge of Army/Military

Question 3

Coup d’eat

Answer 3

The attempted seizure of gov’t by an alternate power group (often the military)

Question 4

Oligarchy

Answer 4

Few People are in charge and make the important decisions

Question 5

Autocracy

Answer 5

One person in charge; could be a dictator, king, queen or a religious figure

Question 6

Apartheid System

Answer 6

The South African system designed to perpetuate racial domination by whites prior to the advent of black majority rule in the early 1990s

Question 7

Totalitarianism

Answer 7

Political system in which every facet of the society, the economy, an dthe government is highly controlled by the ruling of the elite (Hallmarks of Totalitarianism: Secret Police Terrorism, Radical ideology implemented through mass mobilization and propaganda)

Question 8

Great Leap Forward

Answer 8

Mao Zedong’s attempt, in late 1950s/early 1960s to tranform and modernize China’s econmics structure through mass mobilization of the entire population into self-sufficient communes in which everything was done in groups.

Question 9

Purges

Answer 9

Elimination of all rivals to power through mass arrests, improsonment, exile and murder, often directed at former associates and their followers who have enough influence to be a threat to the elite.

Question 10

Gestapo

Answer 10

In Nazi Germany, the secret state police, Hitler’s instrument for spreading mass terror among Jews and political opponents.

Question 11

Theocracy

Answer 11

Government based on religion and dominated by the clergy