Soviet and the Nazis

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 viewsStress 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

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What were the Russians fighting for in their Civil War?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Explain the slogan of the Bolsheviks?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Who took over after Lenin died?

Answer 15

Josef Stalin

Question 16

How did Stalin use censorship to control the public?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

How did Stalin use propaganda to control the public?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

How did Stalin use leader worship to control the public?

Answer 18

Built statues of himself, had religious songs written about him

Question 19

How did Stalin use police state to control the public?

Answer 19

Had gulags to throw prisoners in, used secret police,

Question 20

What was the holodomor?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

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

Answer 21

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

Question 22

How did the factories operate in the Soviet Union?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

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

Answer 23

In order to meet the quotas, work days were often 16 hours, 7 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 24

What are collective farms?

Answer 24

Massive government owned and operated farms.

Question 25

What problems did collective farming have?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

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

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What were the successes of Stalin as a leader?

Answer 27

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 28

What were the failures of Stalin as a leader?

Answer 28

He was responsible for the deaths of millions of his people

Question 29

What was the Weimar Republic?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Why were Germans mad at the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 30

Made Germany pay reparations to France, guilt for the war, no more military, lost their lands. made them weak

Question 31

What is hyperinflation?

Answer 31

Rapid decrease in value of money

Question 32

Why did Germany purposely hyperinflate their economy?

Answer 32

To pay back their reparations

Question 33

How did US help Germany with hyperinflation?

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What was the problem with this solution?

Answer 34

Tied Europeans economy to the United States economy

Question 35

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

Answer 35

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

Question 36

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

Answer 36

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 37

How did the US get out of the Great Depression?

Answer 37

All did some form of “Government putting large amounts of money into the economy to jump start it.We paid people to build schools, plant trees, etc. Eventually, we paid them to build war materials for WW2.

Question 38

How did the Great Depression affect regular people in Germany?

Answer 38

Lost their jobs, lost their savings in the bank.

Question 39

How did Hitler use the Great Depression to take power?

Answer 39

He used the fear and anger at the government to convince them he was the only person who could fix it

Question 40

What are the major beliefs of Fascism?

Answer 40

Based on extreme loyalty to one leader and to the “nation” over the individualStrong countries are better countries, and need a strong military to conquer lesser countriesIndividualism 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.

Question 41

What was the reichstag fire?

Answer 41

A fire that at their government building

Question 42

Who was found guilty of the fire?

Answer 42

A Communists

Question 43

Who probably started the fire?

Answer 43

Nazis- Hitler

Question 44

How did the Nazis use the Reichstag Fire to take control of Germany?

Answer 44

Blamed the fire on the communist political party, which allowed them to outlaw the communist party from elections, allowing the nazi party to win the election.

Question 45

What was the Enabling Act?

Answer 45

Made Hitler a dictator by allowing him to have sole power to pass laws.

Question 46

How did Hitler use the 4 methods of control?

Answer 46

Propaganda -Videos, ant-sentism pictures Censorship -Book burning Leader Worship -Made himself a god figure Police State -Sent enemies to concentration camps, secret police.