Totalitarian

Question 0

Lenin

Answer 0

An engaging personality, excellent organizer

Question 1

White Army & Red Army

Answer 1

White Army- different groups opposing Bolsheviks; some supported rule by the czar, others democratic government and socialist.
Red Army-the Bolsheviks

Question 2

USSR/Soviet Union

Answer 2

Local council consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers

Question 3

Stalin

Answer 3

Cold, hard, and impersonal

Question 4

Five Year Plan

Answer 4

There were two. 1 to increase of steel, coal, oil and electricity. It did not work out. 2 the second 5 year plan, same goals, still worked out.

Question 5

command economy

Answer 5

A system in witch the government made all economic decisions.

Question 6

collective farms

Answer 6

When the government took all of the farms and stuffed hundreds of family’s in them.

Question 7

cheka

Answer 7

Bolchevik secret police

Question 8

gulags

Answer 8

Forced system of labor camps

Question 9

Siberia

Answer 9

The giant mountain range in the pure right side of Russia

Question 10

goner

Answer 10

People that got sick and were going to die of starvation

Question 11

indoctrination

Answer 11

Instruction in the government’s beliefs - to mold people’s minds. Control of education is absolutely essential.

Question 12

propaganda

Answer 12

Media controlling the people

Question 13

censorship

Answer 13

control of the information and ideas circulated within a society like press, radio, literature, paintings, film, churches and books.

Question 14

forced atheism

Answer 14

Forcing people to exercise.

Question 15

cult of personality

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Question 16

terror

Answer 16

To be afraid

Question 17

Mussolini

Answer 17

Politician that ruled Italy.

Question 18

“mutilated victory”

Answer 18

When Italy didn’t get a lot of land in the treaty of versille

Question 19

Italian Parliament

Answer 19

Italy’s government

Question 20

Blackshirts

Answer 20

Mussolini’s soldiers

Question 21

Hitler

Answer 21

The ruler of the nazis

Question 22

Weimar Republic

Answer 22

Germany’s New Democratic government setup in 1919

Question 23

inflation

Answer 23

When it takes more money to buy even the most basic goods

Question 24

Ruhr Valley

Answer 24

The land in between France and Germany that France took

Question 25

Mein Kampf & Hitler’s beliefs

Answer 25

Book called My Struggle Hitler wrote while in jail telling his beliefs and goals for Germany 1)Germans were superior. 2)Non Aryans were inferior. 3)Versailles Treaty was an outrage. 4) German needed more space by taking Russian land.

Question 26

gestapo

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Nazi secret police

Question 27

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Question 27

Nazi Party

Answer 27

Believed Germany had to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism.

Question 28

At the end of WWI, what makes you think that another war is just around the corner?

Answer 28

The big 3 punished Germany even though it wasn’t their fault. There is a lot of tension in Europe.

Question 29

What was life like after WWI? (…for civilians, for soldiers, for the economy…)

Answer 29

For civilians, a lot of people were dying from influenza. The economy was in inflation. The soldiers suffered from diseases like PTSD, shell shock and prosthetic limbs.

Question 30

What caused the Russian Revolution?

Answer 30

Not ready for WWI, taxes, corruption and the price of bread went up.

Question 31

How is communism under Lenin different from the communism Marx envisioned?

Answer 31

Marx - the communal ownership of wealth

Lenin - the state needed to be run by a single party with centrally directed administrators to ensure its goals.

Question 32

6 things totalitarian leaders use to gain and keep control? Why do people let them do this?

Answer 32

Dynamic leader
Ideology 
State control of individuals
Methods of reinforcement
Modern technology 
State Control of Society
Dictatorship and one Party Rule

Question 33

Why does Mussolini reference the Roman Empire in his speeches & how do Italians respond?

Answer 33

Mussolini made the Italians proud of their past conquests and the Italian’s responded by fighting for him.

Question 34

How does Hitler rise to power? How is this similar to/different from Mussolini? Stalin?

Answer 34

All three came into power legally then changed the focus of the government. Hitler and Mussolini were small men that gave fiery speeches to get motivate the population.

Question 35

What is the relationship between Fascists and Communists?

Answer 35

Both were
ruled by dictators
denied individual rights
the states were supreme

Question 36

lebensraum

Answer 36

“Living Space”. Hitler declared Germany was overcrowded and needed more living space by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia.