Ch. 27

Question 1

totalitarianism

Answer 1

exercises “total claims” over people by taking control of the economic,social, intellectual, and cultural aspects of society

Question 2

fascism

Answer 2

a movement characterized by extremes like nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leaser

Question 3

eugenics

Answer 3

selective breeding of humans can improve general characteristics of a national population

Question 4

five-year-plan

Answer 4

Stalin’s plan in 1928 aimed at modernizing the Soviet Union and creating a new Communist society

Question 5

New Economic Policy

Answer 5

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

Question 6

collectivization of agriculture

Answer 6

peasant farms become large state-controlled enterprises in the USSR

Question 7

kulaks

Answer 7

peasants were stripped of land and livestock under stalin and were generally not allowed to join collective farms.

Question 8

Black Shirts

Answer 8

Mussolini’s private army an police force, pushing socialists out of the country

Question 9

Lateran Agreement

Answer 9

1929 agreement that Vatican was an independant state

Question 10

National Socialism

Answer 10

movement and political party driven by extreme national and racism led by Adolf Hitler

Question 11

Enabling Act

Answer 11

pushed through Reichstag’s by the Nazis that gave Hitler dictatorial power

Question 12

Appeasement

Answer 12

British policy toward Germany giving Hitler whatever he wanted

Question 13

New Order

Answer 13

Hitlers program based on racial imperialism which gave preferencial treatment to different peoples

Question 14

Holocaust

Answer 14

the systematic effort to the Nazi estate to exterminate all European Jews and other groups deemed racially inferior