Dictatorships And The Second World War Re imagined

Question 1

Where did Conservative authoritarianism get it’s roots?

Answer 1

Europe

Question 2

Conservative authoritarianism

Answer 2

anti-democratic form of government that believed in avoiding change but was limited in its power and objectives.

Question 3

Conservative authoritarianism

Answer 3

anti-democratic form of government that believed in avoiding change but was limited in its power and objectives.

Question 4

When and where was Conservative authoritarianism revived?

Answer 4

Conservative authoritarianism revived after the First World War in eastern Europe, Spain, and Portugal.

Question 5

Why was conservative authoritariasim revived in Europe Span and Portugal?

Answer 5

• These countries lacked a strong tradition of self-government.
• Many were torn by ethnic conflicts.
• Large landowners and the church looked to dictators to save them from land reform.

Question 6

Hungary as an example of conservative authoritiasim

Answer 6

rule by landlords in a highly nationalistic and conservative state—without reform.

Question 7

Examples of conservative authoritarianism

Answer 7

Portland Portugal and Hungary

Question 8

New Authoriatism States were The new authoritarian governments were more concerned with __________ than with forcing society into rapid change.

Answer 8

mantaining the status quo

Question 9

New radical dictatorships in the 1920s and 1930s were based on ________________.

Answer 9

rejection of parliamentary democracy and liberal values, along with unprecedented control over the masses.

Question 10

When do some historians claim that totalitarianism emerged?

Answer 10

Some historians claim that the concept of totalitarianism emerged from the First World War and the Russian civil war,

Question 11

When do some historians claim that totalitarianism emerged?

Answer 11

The induvidual’s freedoms were limited because the world was at war

Question 12

What did totalirism use to try and control the people?

Answer 12

modern tech communications

Question 13

What did Totalirism emphasize?

Answer 13

totalitarianism stressed that the individual was less important than the state.

Question 14

What is a rebel against liberism?

Answer 14

Totalirism

Question 15

What is totalirism based on

Answer 15

the masses

Question 16

What does totalirism believe in

Answer 16

Putting society towards a greater goal

Question 17

Facism

Answer 17

Fascism is a form of totalitarianism—with emphasis on expansionist nationalism and anti-socialism—

Question 18

Reason for establishment of NEP

Answer 18

By 1921 Russia’s economy was destroyed

Question 19

Effects of NEP

Answer 19

Peasants bought and sold goods on the free market.
Agricultural production grew, and industrial production surpassed the prewar level.

Question 20

What did NEP do and why?

Answer 20

re-established limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry.

Question 21

What did NEP stand for?

Answer 21

(Lenin’s) New Economic Policy

Question 22

What caused a struggle for power in Russia?

Answer 22

Economic recovery+ Lenin’s death caused a struggle for power.

Question 23

Who won the struggle for power caused by Russia?

Answer 23

Stalin

Question 24

How did Stalin met the ethnic demands for independence?

Answer 24

by granting minority groups limited freedoms.

Question 25

Meaning of Stalin’s theory of “socialism in one country,”

Answer 25

Russia building its own socialist society,

Question 26

Trotsky's theory of "permanent revolution

Answer 26

the overthrow of other European states.

Question 27

Was Stalin’s theory of “socialism in one country,” more attractive to many Communists, or was Trotsky’s theory of “permanent revolution,"

Answer 27

Stalin's theory

Question 28

By 1927, Stalin had crushed all opposition and was ready to ___________

Answer 28

launch an economic-social revolution.

Question 29

What did Stalin want to do to the NEP?

Answer 29

Get rid of it

Question 30

What did Stalin want?

Answer 30

Stalin wanted to erase the NEP, spur the economy, and catch up with the West.

Question 31

Why did Stalin wage a preventive war against the better-off peasants, the kulaks?

Answer 31

to bring them and their land under state control.

Question 32

Who did Stalin wage a preemtive war aginst

Answer 32

the kulaks

Question 33

Who were the kulaks?

Answer 33

the better off peasents

Question 34

forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled enterprises—resulted in _________

Answer 34

disaster for agriculture and unparalleled human tragedy but a political victory for Stalin and the Communist party, as the peasants were eliminated as a potential threat.

Question 35

What did the 5 year plans do for the industry, and who aided this?

Answer 35

The five-year plans brought about a spectacular growth of heavy industry, especially with the aid of government control of the workers and foreign technological experts.

Question 36

What did massive investments mean for the workers?

Answer 36

low standards of living for workers.

Question 37

Stalin’s_________ created fear and eliminated any opposition.

Answer 37

reign of terror and mass purges

Question 38

What was common in arts

Answer 38

propaganda

Question 39

Good things in Stalnist society

Answer 39

- better edu

Question 40

Women in Soviet Union

Answer 40

- Better opportunities in industry and education. - equality of rights for women. - divorce and abortion were made easy - liberated themselves sexually. - Most women had to work to help support their families in addition to caring for the home and the children.

Question 41

What proclaimed complete equality of rights for women?

Answer 41

The 1917 revolution proclaimed complete equality of rights for women.

Question 42

What problems did Italy have when moving towards democracy?

Answer 42

Catholics, conservatives, and landowners hated liberalism and the country was divided.

Question 43

Where did the Socialist party gain power prior to 1914

Answer 43

Italy

Question 44

- What ended the move towards democracy in Italy

Answer 44

the first world war and post war

Question 45

The Russian revolution energized Italy’s socialists into_______

Answer 45

occupying factories and farms.

Question 46

How did most itallians feel about liberal and parilentary government by 1922?

Answer 46

Most Italians were opposed to liberal, parliamentary government.

Question 47

How did Mussolini oppose socialist threat?

Answer 47

physical force (the black shirts)

Question 48

What did Mussolini force the king to do?

Answer 48

make him head of gov