Russian Revolution, Totalitarianism, Fascism

Question 1

United States post war economy

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NOT troubled by a weak economy directly after World War I

Question 2

Russification

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Political program that was attempting to avoid nationalism among minority populations and unite the population under the czar

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Coalitions

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Political fragmentation in the post war era often led to these being formed since there were so many political parties and it was difficult to get enough votes

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Totalitarianism

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Ideology that advocates, a state with a dictator that uses modern technology and communications to control political, social, and economic components of subjects lives

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Lebensraum

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Response to land loss in the Treaty of Versailles, this was the concept of German expansion

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Pogroms

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Organized violence against Russian Jews and other minority groups that was encouraged by the government

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Black Tuesday

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Marked the beginning of the Great Depression

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Dawes Plan

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200 million Loan of American money used to stabilize the German Deutschmark in the 1920s, this also called for a more realistic schedule of reparation repayment

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Kellogg Briand Pact

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Unenforceable international peace agreement

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Five Year Plans

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Stalin’s plan of rapid industrialization for the USSR

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Nationalism

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Ideology stressed by fascism

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Kremlin

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Former fortress that stood as the centralized government for the U.S.S.R

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Germany

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Weimar Republic was its postwar democratic government

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Beer Hall Putsch

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Unsuccessful 1923 Nazi coup d’etat in Munich Germany

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Hyperinflation

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Caused by the reparation payments, this caused the exchange rate of Deutschmarks to dollars to become 4.2 trillion dm to $1 at its height in November 1923

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Bolsheviks

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Radical group of socialist/communist revolutionaries who took control of Russia in November 1917-“the reds”

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Fascism

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This political ideology believed in glorification of war and the military

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Nazism

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The German form of fascism

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Franco

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He was fascist dictator, general, and head of the Spanish government from 1939-1975 who gained power after the Spanish Civil War

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Third Reich

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German Empire established by Adolph Hitler in the 1930’s

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Italy

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One of three European Nations that were fascist in the years between the World Wars

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Popular Front

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Name the unexpected alliance/coalition of moderates, socialists, and communists that controlled France in 1936

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Spain

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One of three European Nations that were fascist in the years between the World Wars

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Keynes

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He was a British economist who advocated government spending as “priming the pump” during recessions

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Russo-Japanese War

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War lost by Russia in 1905 that hurt the power of the Czar

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Lenin

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leader of the radical socialists and “father of the Revolution” who took control of Russia in November 1917 and declared a “dictatorship of the proletariat “

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Kulaks

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Wealthy farmers eliminated by the Soviet Government as part of collectivization

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Rasputin

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Russian mystic and advisor to the Czarina, he was assassinated by aristocrats who feared his influence on the royal familt

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Command economy

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System practiced by Stalin in which all economic decisions were made by the government

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Kristalnacht

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November 9, 1938, Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany

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Mussolini

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He gained power in Italy legally and became a fascist dictator

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New Economic Policy

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Economic plan by Lenin which mixed small scale capitalism and large scale communism

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Stalin

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He took power in 1928 and used totalitarianism to create “socialism in one country”, his brutality led to million of deaths

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Anti-Semitism

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Jews in Czarist Russia experienced this attitude

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Bloody Sunday 1905

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In 1905, this in part was a response to the loss of Russo-Japanese War. 200,000 rowers marched on the czar’s palace and demanded reforms. The event was a massacre resulting in short lived reforms

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Strassemann

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German states man and former Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, he negotiated the Treaty of Locarno, Dawes Plan, Admittance of Germany into the League of Nations, and stabilization of the Germany economy with the rentenmark

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Aryan

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To the Nazis, Germanic people who formed a “master race”

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Mein Kampf (My Stuggle)

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Book written by Adolph Hitler while in prison for nine months, it set out his beliefs and goals for Germany.

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Nicholas II of Russia

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Last of the Reomanov rulers, he abdicated and was executed along with his family in 1918.

Question 40

Hilter

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Used his speaking abilities and propaganda to amass a strong following in Germany and became Chancellor in 1933