Dictatorships Unit Final

Question 1

whats indoctrination

Answer 1

the government controls all forms of media and uses it to present why the government is great

Question 2

whats force and terror

Answer 2

use of extreme measures to destroy all opposition to the government

Question 3

whats scapegoating

Answer 3

when a certain group is blamed for creating/causing the problems of the nation

Question 4

whats controlled participation

Answer 4

when elections are held even if there is no real choice of leader

Question 5

what are the four techniques of dictatorship

Answer 5

indoctrination, force and terror, scapegoating, controlled participation

Question 6

whats the reichstage

Answer 6

german parliament

Question 7

when did hitler gain power legally

Answer 7

1933

Question 8

what allowed Hitler to gain complete power

Answer 8

the enabling act

Question 9

what was the treaty of versailles

Answer 9

terms Germany was forced to accept as a surrender in WWI

Question 10

who initiated Russian communist revolution

Answer 10

lenin

Question 11

whos the politburo

Answer 11

highest decision making body in a communist party

Question 12

who was stalins main rival as lenins replacement

Answer 12

trotsky

Question 13

what was stalins first step to becoming leader

Answer 13

accepted position of general secretary of the communist party during lenins leadership

Question 14

difference between Trotsky and Stalin views

Answer 14

Trosky wanted revolution in countries threatening USSR; Stalin wanted to strengthen USSR

Question 15

what were gulags

Answer 15

forced labour/prison camps

Question 16

name of russian secret police force

Answer 16

KGB

Question 17

who were kulaks

Answer 17

wealthy farmers that resisted stalins collectivization

Question 18

whats bolshevik

Answer 18

Russian political party led by lenin

Question 19

who started communism

Answer 19

karl marx

Question 20

what did marx believe about a capitalist economy

Answer 20

the market system allowed the exploiting of workers

Question 21

whats the proletariat

Answer 21

working class

Question 22

whats the bourgeoisie

Answer 22

class of wealthy capitalists business own

Question 23

what did Gorbachev do

Answer 23

move away from extreme communism and take steps to get to more of a western style economy

Question 24

authoritarianism definition

Answer 24

form of government where all major decisions are made by a small group of people or one single person

Question 25

military dictatorship definition

Answer 25

form of government where military leaders control all key political positions after overthrowing the previous government

Question 26

whats luddites

Answer 26

people opposed to new technology

Question 27

whats chartism

Answer 27

working class movement in britain that focused on political and social reform

Question 28

what did the luddites do

Answer 28

protest against industrialixation and mechanization by breaking into factories and destroying machines

Question 29

whos the founder of utopian socialism

Answer 29

rovert owen

Question 30

whats a utopian socialist

Answer 30

humanitarians who advocatred an end to appaling conditions of the average worker in industrial capitalist countries

Question 31

3 core values of communist manifesto

Answer 31

abolishment of private ownership, centralization of power to the state, universal education to create equality of outcome

Question 32

was Hitler considered national or international and why

Answer 32

national because wanted to create prosperity for that specific nation

Question 33

was Stalin considered national or international and why

Answer 33

international because goal was to spread communism throughout the world

Question 34

whos the Weimar government

Answer 34

the government in power in germamny after WWI who the NAZIS overthrew

Question 35

Marxism core beleifs

Answer 35

• society divided into social classes with capitalist class exploiting working class
• should abolish private property
• establish classless society
• woriers need to unite and become collective to overthrow capitalist government

Question 36

what did john maynard Keynes want

Answer 36

government intervention in the economy to promote stability and growth