Ch 27: Dictatorship and WWII

Question 1

Before totalitarianism, what was the traditional form of antidemocratic government in europe?

Answer 1

conservative authoritarianism

Question 2

radical dictatorship that exercises “total claims” over the beliefs and behavior of citizens. Took control of economic, intellectual, social, and cultural parts of society

Answer 2

totalitarianism

Question 3

What was the difference between communism and fascism?

Answer 3

Fascism didn’t promot social leveling like communism did

Question 4

Movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military

Answer 4

fascism

Question 5

Fascism claimed to strive to build a new community on a _______ level

Answer 5

national

Question 6

What are some similarities between communists and fascists?

Answer 6

• Promised to improve life for workers

- hated liberalism and democracy

Question 7

doctrine that said that selective breeding of humans could improve characteristics of the population

Answer 7

eugenics

Question 8

Communists and fascists were sworn ________

Answer 8

enemies

Question 9

_____ established the basic outlines of totalitarianism in Russia

Answer 9

Lenin

Question 10

Plan that aimed at modernizing the Soviet Union and creation a new Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity

Answer 10

5 year plan

Question 11

Who launched the five year plan?

Answer 11

Stalin

Question 12

Lenin replaced war communism with the __________________, which re-established limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry

Answer 12

New Economic Policy (NEP)

Question 13

Did the NEP work?

Answer 13

Yes, it was a political and economic success

Question 14

What problem arose just as the economy was starting to get better in Russia?

Answer 14

Lenin died without a chosen successor

Question 15

Who were the two main candidates fighting for power after Lenins death?

Answer 15

Stalin and Trotsky

Question 16

This candidate for Russian power was a good organizer, poor speaker/writer, and had no experience outside of russia

Answer 16

Stalin

Question 17

Inspiring leader who had planned the 1917 Bolshevik takeover and created the Red Army

Answer 17

Trotsky

Question 18

Why did Stalin win over Trotsky?

Answer 18

• he was better at getting support from the party

- he was bale to relate Marxist teaching to soviet realities

Question 19

Stalins theory that said the the soviet union had the ability to build socialism on its own, was more appealing to the majority of the population

Answer 19

“Socialism in one country”

Question 20

Trotsky’s theory that socialism in the Soviet Union could only succeed in a socialist revolution swept Europe

Answer 20

“Permanent Revolution”

Question 21

Stalin argued for more ____________ control of non Russian nations within the Soviet Union

Answer 21

centralized

Question 22

the NEP ended when __________ came to power

Answer 22

stalin

Question 23

What were the guidelines for the first five year plan?

Answer 23

• increase industry and agriculture

- peasants to give up private plots to join collective farms

Question 24

Forced consolidation of individual peasant farms into large state controlled enterprises

Answer 24

Collectivization

Question 25

Class of well off peasants who had most benefited from the NEP, focus of Stalin’s repression

Answer 25

Kulaks

Question 26

Where was collectivization most rapid/violent

Answer 26

ukraine

Question 27

What was more successful under the five year plan, agriculture or industry?

Answer 27

Industry