Dictatorships

Question 1

what is a democracy

Answer 1

a system of goverment in which people vote to choose their politicians

Question 2

what is a dictatorship

Answer 2

a country governed by a dictator who passes very strict laws

Question 3

How did Stalin impress Lenin?

Answer 3

By climbing up the ranks
Eagerness and skills to raise money for the party

Question 4

key features of a democracy

Answer 4

voting/elections, freedom of speech, multiple groups/party’s, freedom of information

Question 5

key features of a dictatorship

Answer 5

no freedom of speech, only one party, no legal freedom no trials, people only join groups aloud by the dictatorship

Question 6

what is communism

Answer 6

a group where everyone is equal and all belongings are shared all things are owned but the public like housing

Question 7

WHo was the father of communism

Answer 7

Karl Marx

Question 8

Who led the Russian Revolution?

Answer 8

Lenin

Question 9

Communism in the USSR

Answer 9

Only the communist party was allowed.

All media/ news was controlled by the communist party.

Nobody was allowed to have an open religious belief.

Everything was provided by the state e.g. houses, hospital, school.

Question 10

define fascism

Answer 10

an anti democratic system of government developed by mussolini in Italy and hitler in germany

Question 11

How did Stalin found out abut communism?

Answer 11

He read books by Karl Marx

Question 12

What was the bolshevik revolution?

Answer 12

Uprising of the communist and overthrow of the Tsar

Question 13

How did Stalin become a dictator?

Answer 13

He got rid of any political opposition

Question 14

What did Stalin want to achieve for the Soviet Union?

Answer 14

He wanted for Russia to gain power, stability, equality for the people.

Question 15

What was the negative impact of Stalin’s dictatorship?

Answer 15

He disowned farmers, which led to famines as the farmed therefore started to fail.

Question 16

What was the negative impact of Stalin’s dictatorship for women?

Answer 16

retracted women’s rights e.g. abortion was banned, divorce was extremely difficult.

Question 17

What happened to minorities within the USSR?

Answer 17

Purges - aim was to expose any enemies/ threats of Stalin
Gulags - a special division of the secret police and the Soviet Ministry of the Interior overseeing the use of the physical labour of prisoners.

Question 18

Describe the background to the start of fascism in Italy. (4)

Answer 18

Itay had been on the winning side of the Great War, but 600 000 Italian soldiers had died. Italians were hoping for land, but didn’t get much.
Ex-army people were stealing and murdering, because there was unemployment and resentment.
People that weren’t suffering were scared of communism.

Question 19

Explain how Italy became a fascist country.

Answer 19

Mussolini came to change Italy, he wanted to bring back Italy’s glory by addressing the issue of unemployment he ordered roads and buildings to be fixed which gave most people jobs and if you didn’t have a job you could sign up to the army which became very popular.
He marched on Rome with his supporters the black shirts and made such an impression the king gave in and made Mussolini the new prime minister. Anyone who was communist or an opposition was beaten or murdered. Italy became a fascist country due to Mussolini becoming a dictator and controlling the population.

Question 20

Describe Adolf Hitler’s early life. (4)

Answer 20

He had a good relationship with his mother and his dad was a hard drinking bully

He wanted to become an artist, although he ended up being rejected by an art school he applied for.

In Vienna, after being rejected by art school, for 5 years he made money in any way he could for examples selling post cards and painting houses, he grew to hate foreigner and rich jewish people because he believed they were ruining Austria by introducing their way of life.

hitler at first tried to hide from the army by going to Vienna but inseat volenterd and won in total 6 medals for bravery in the great war . he was in hospital when he heard germany lost the war and blamed weak politicians and jews

Question 21

How did Hitler go from being a politician to prisoner?

Answer 21

. he stayed in the army after war and spyed on new political groups he was known as a v-man
. one if them was called a german workers party- he liked many of there ideas and decided to join it
. he wrote in papers speaking out about the groups ideas and beliefs and that jews were germs he also spoke about germany needing a strong leader who could take revenge for the defeat of germany in WW1
.he changed the name to the nazi party and made the swastika the symbol

Question 22

How did Hitler go from being a prisoner to being a politician?

Answer 22

.his views mad him popular and soon he wanted too take over germany
. he tired to start a revolution in munich but failed
.put in prison for treason
. in prison he wrote a book called mein kampf (my struggle)
. many liked his idea of making germany great again

Question 23

How did Hitler go from being a politician to being a leader?

Answer 23

.on release from prison he went back to running the nazi party
. by 1929 the great depression started and millions lost there jobs and soon hitler moved from the 8th favorited party to the 1st
becuase of his promise to bring jobs in and his famous line “ ill provide you with work and bread”
. by 1933 he was the prime minister of germany

Question 24

.Describe the methods the Nazis used to control Germany?

Answer 24

. secret police

Question 25

Describe how jewish people were treated under the Nazi rule?

Question 26

Describe the role of Women in Nazi Germany.

Answer 26

women where usully doing domestic tasks such as cooking cleaning most women’s rights where taken away from them like abortions divorce and illegitamte children where revocked

Question 27

Describe the life of young people in Nazi Germany?

Answer 27

these kids were called the first soviet generation. this generation showed the virtues and vices of the society it hailed from.they were brought up to follow hitler and if there parents spoke against him in any way the kids were encoraged to inform the secret police