Chapter 28 Flashcards
What is 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.
What is fascism?
Extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti-socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military.
What is eugenics?
A pseudo-scientific doctrine that maintains that the selective breeding of human beings can be improved the general characteristics of a national population.
What is the five-year plan?
a plan launched by Stalin in 1928, and termed the “revolution from above,” aimed at modernizing the Soviet Union and creating a new communist society with new attitudes, loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
What does NEP stand for?
New Economic Policy
What is the New Economic Policy?
policy to re-establish limits economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
What is collectivization of agriculture?
the forcible consolidation of individual peasants farms into larger state controlled enterprises in the Soviet Union under Stalin.
Who were the kulaks?
the better-off peasants who were stripped of land and livestock under Stalin and were generally not permitted to join collective farm
What were the causes of totalitarianism?
Anti-democrats; and they wanted to stronger nation
Who ‘invented’ communism?
Marx
What was the basic idea of communism?
No class difference, free of capitalist inequality, equal pay
Which leader(s) embraced communism?
Stalin
Which leaders embraced fascism?
Hitler and Mussolini
Who seizes power in Italy in 1922?
Mussolini
What is the difference between communism and fascism?
fascist glorify war and the military and sought to destroy independent working-class movement