Fascism/Communism Flashcards
Methods of manipulation/dictatorship
- indoctrination
- controlling information
- controlled participation
- scapegoating
- cult of leadership
- secret police
- purges
indoctrination
forcibly educating people for the gov’s belief
- youth groups
controlled participation
gov must have people participate to keep control
- party membership, votes
controlling information
gov controls media access to people
- media/internet
scapegoating
directing frustration towards a common focus
- capitalists
cult of leadership
leader is at god like status
- stalin, paternalistic society
secret police
police directly under the control of a leader
- GPU, KGB, Red army
purges
anyone who threatens the goals of the state is removed
- old bolshevik, show trials
treaty of versailles
ended WWI with germany accepting full blame
Reparations- germany pays reichsmarks, gave hitler scapegoating
Weimar republic
blamed for versailles, hyperinflation, instability
- radical left- abandoned the ideals of workers movement
- reactionary right- democracy was flawed, return to old system
Nazi’s
National socialist german workers party - inspired by Bento Mussolini - force and terror - anti-semitism- making jews a target hitler believed in indoctrination
Munich Putsch/ Beer hall putsch
nov 1923- unsuccessful attempt (coup) by nazi’s to take over gov.
Mussolini’s march on rome
hitler was arrested
Reichstag fire 1933
germany’s parliament building was set on fire
- believed nazi’s or communists set fire
- passed the enabling act to give emergency power to executive branch
Autocracy
workers forced to join national labour front
- goal: make germany self-sufficient
- industries nationalized, private industries flourished
Night of long knives
SA- brownshirts
SS- blackshirts
1934- SS murdered SA (purge)
Anti-semitism
hitler believed that some were superior than others. (aryans at top)
- slaves were servants, but blacks and jews were undesirable and removed from the reich
- dictatorship
Kristallnacht
night of broken glass
- a pogrom (gov sponsored attack group) on jews
- jews sent to concentration camps runned by SS & GESTAPO under command of heinrich himmler
rejection- rule of law
no seperation of power, no accountability, politburo
rejection- individual R & F
state controlled, censorship, Gulag, purge
rejection- private property
nationalization, collectivization
rejection- economic freedom
GOSPLAN, Kulaks
rejection- self interest
state goals
rejection- competition
nationalization of industries
dictatorship
gov is ruled by an individual with unchecked power
authoritarian
gov whose leader is unaccountable
totalitarian
gov controls all areas of human life
Mein Kampf
my struggle
- third reich in germany
propaganda
Joesph Goebbels, censorship, controlling information
nuremberg laws
jews were no longer german citizens
USSR
extreme left, authoritarian, totalitarian
-stalin, soviets
Nazi
extreme right, authoritarian, totalitarian
- hitler, germany
