Rise of Totalitarian

Question 1

What is a totalitarian government?

Answer 1

A government, usually with one leader, that takes total control of all aspects of public and private life.

Question 2

What are four methods that dictators use to control their people?

Answer 2

Censorship
Propaganda
Leader Worship
Police State

Question 3

What is censorship? Why does it work?

Answer 3

• Stops any damaging information from being public

- People don’t get mad about things they don’t know about.

Question 4

What is Propaganda?

Answer 4

• Biased or false information used to sway people to accept the government’s views
• Stress the positives of the government and the negatives of their opponents

Question 5

What are the propaganda techniques ?

Answer 5

• Bandwagon
• Name-Calling
• Emotional Words
• Fear
• Plain Folks

Question 6

Describe what a police state is.

Answer 6

Control your country through the use of fear. Used spies, bugging houses, and concentration camps to make people fearful.

Question 7

Why does police state work to keep people in line.

Answer 7

People are so scared of the secret police, that they never question anything.

Question 8

What is leader worship?

Answer 8

Replacing organized religion with worship of the dictator

Question 9

Why is leader worship successful?

Answer 9

• People will make sacrifices for religion

- The leader gets to be unquestioned no matter what

Question 10

What kind of government style did Russia have before its revolutions?

Answer 10

Monarchy

Question 11

what is a czar?

Answer 11

Russian word for king

Question 12

What were the workers asking for on Bloody Sunday?

Answer 12

• Better work hours, conditions, and pay
• Free Healthcare
• Parliament and voting rights
• Freedom of speech, association, press, and religion
• End of fighting in their war with Japan

Question 13

Why was Bloody Sunday so damaging to the czar?

Answer 13

Riots broke out nationwide, and Nicholas never regained full control or the trust of his people

Question 14

In what ways did WWI lead to the end of the Russian monarchy?

Answer 14

• Russia lost over 2 million troops, and almost 1 million civilians in the war.
• Food was scarce because it was mostly going to the military
• People were furious with the government and eventually the Czar had to step down

Question 15

What were the Russians fighting for in their Civil War?

Answer 15

• They were fighting over who would be the new government in Russia
• It was a fight between the Red Army (the Communists) and the White Armies (who didn’t want communism)

Question 16

Explain the slogan of the Bolsheviks?

Answer 16

• Peace - Getting out of WWI
• Land - Giving land to the peasants
• Bread - Providing food to all

Question 17

Who took over after Lenin died?

Answer 17

Josef Stalin

Question 18

How did Stalin use censorship to control the public?

Answer 18

He cut people out of pictures, “unpersoned” those who crossed him, and wouldn’t’ let any bad news about his government be printed.

Question 19

How did Stalin use propaganda to control the public?

Answer 19

He hung posters of how great the Soviet Union was, had songs about himself, wrote all the books, made children’s cartoons, etc.

Question 20

How did Stalin use leader worship to control the public?

Answer 20

Built statues of himself, had religious songs written about him

Question 21

How did Stalin use police state to control the public?

Answer 21

Had gulags to throw prisoners in, used secret police,

Question 22

What was the holodomor?

Answer 22

Stalin’s program of taking food from Ukraine as punishment for rebelling. It killed over 6 million people in less than a year.

Question 23

How did the Soviet economy (businesses, etc) run on Communist principles?

Answer 23

The government owned and operated all businesses and farms. They also controlled everyone’s labor.

Question 24

How did the factories operate in the Soviet Union?

Answer 24

The government decided what to make, how it was made, and who worked there.

Question 25

What issues were there with the factories in the Soviet Union?

Answer 25

In order to meet the quotas, work days were often 16 hours, 76 days a week. Secret police operated the factories and killed anyone who wasn’t work hard enough. Focused mostly on making heavy industry goods, instead of household goods.

Question 26

What are collective farms?

Answer 26

Massive government owned and operated farms.

Question 27

What problems did collective farming have?

Answer 27

People didn’t want to work on them, and sabotaged the work. Millions were killed when they resisted work.

Question 28

What evidence is there that the Soviet industrial and agricultural revolutions were successful?

Answer 28

Iron, coal, and steel production increased. Wheat production doubled.

Question 29

What were the successes of Stalin as a leader?

Answer 29

He was able to maintain power for decades.

He took a backwards country and turned it into a military and industrial of the United States

Question 30

What were the failures of Stalin as a leader?

Answer 30

He was responsible for the deaths of millions of his people\Totalitarian life in Germany

Question 31

What was the Weimar Republic?

Answer 31

Democracy put into place by Treaty of Versailles, enforced by the Allies of WWI. Got rid of Germans monarchy.

Question 32

Why were Germans mad at the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 32

Made Germany pay reparations to France, guilt for the war, no more military, lost their lands. MADE THEM WEAK

Question 33

What is hyperinflation?

Answer 33

Rapid increase in value of money

Question 34

Why did Germany purposely hyperinflate their economy?

Answer 34

To pay back their reparations

Question 35

How did US help Germany with hyperinflation?

Answer 35

Loaned Germany A LOT of US money to pump into their economy, to stop hyperinflation.

Question 36

What was the problem with this solution?

Answer 36

Tied Europeans economy to the United States economy

Question 37

What were the three underlying causes of the Great depression in the US?

Answer 37

• Too many people relied on credit to buy goods
• Inequality of wealth
• The banking system collapsed, taking with it people’s money

Question 38

How did the Great Depression affect the rest of the world?

Answer 38

When our economy stopped, we stopped loaning money to Germany, which collapsed their economies. They were then unable to pay France and Britain, which collapsed their economies.

Question 39

How did the US get out of the Great Depression?

Answer 39

we paid people to do jobs to pump money into the economy , plant trees, build schools etc.

Question 40

How did the Great Depression affect regular people in Germany?

Answer 40

lost their jobs, their savings in the bank.

Question 41

How did Hitler use the Great Depression to take power?

Answer 41

he used fear and anger at the government to convince them he was the only one that was able to fix it

Question 42

What are the major beliefs of Fascism?

Answer 42

• Based on extreme loyalty to one leader and to the “nation” over the individual
• Strong countries are better -countries, and need a strong military to conquer lesser countries
• Individualism and liberalism enable dangerous decadence and have a negative effect on the group.
• A strong sense of community or brotherhood, brought together by the belief they are victims.