Note Questions (Terms) Flashcards
Germany’s affirmation that it would accept its current boundaries
Locarno Pact
economic crisis beginning with stock market crash in 1929 and continuing to the 1930s
Great Depression
form of gov. in which the ruler is and absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Totalitarianism
- NEP
- Return to more capitalistic economy
- 1921 begun by Lenin
New Economic Policy
- USSR
- Created by Lenin in 1922 - Led by Stalin
Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
- 1st totalitarianism leader (after Lenin)
- led USSR (1927-1953)
- won over Trotsky (Lenin’s chosen successor)
- centralized gov. and economy
- 5 year plans introduced
- Russia prospered, but its people suffered
- heavy industry increased, merchandise decreased
Joseph Stalin
- Plans Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union
- Set goals for the output of steel, electricity, and machinery
Five Year Plans
- Stalin carried out Great Purges to remove all memory of the Bolshevik revolution
Great Terror
political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
Fascism
- Collecting all land or all resources of a region and making them work together for the better of the state
Collectivization
Fascist dictator of Italy
Mussolini
- Members of Italian fascists before WWII
- Led by Mussolini
- Helped solidify Mussolini’s control
Blackshirts
- Conservative democratic republic in Germany which oversaw Germany;s economic crisis after WWI
Weimar Republic
- German Nazi Dictator during WWII
- Nazi leader
Adolf Hitler
- Failed revolt led by Hitler
- Resulted in his imprisonment
Beer Hall Putsch
- “My Struggle”
- Hitler’s book he wrote while imprisoned
- outlined the Nazi’s goals, ideology, and reflected obsession
Mein Kampf
- Massacre in which Hitler killed off or imprisoned all his enemies in a single night in 1934
Night of the Long Knives
- “Night of Broken Glass”
- Nazi trooper attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues throughout Germany
Kristallnacht
- National Socialist German Workers’ party
- Led by Hitler
Nazi Party
- Pure Germanic race
- Used by the Nazis to suggest a superior non-jewish, caucasian typified by height, blonde hair, and blue eyes
Aryan Race
- German Nazi who was chief of the SS
- oversaw the genocide of six million jews
Himmler
propaganda minister of Nazi Party
Geoballs
- Laws defining status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood
Nuremberg Laws
royalists opposed to the new communist regime
Whites
