Totalitarian Flashcards
Lenin
An engaging personality, excellent organizer
White Army & Red Army
White Army- different groups opposing Bolsheviks; some supported rule by the czar, others democratic government and socialist.
Red Army-the Bolsheviks
USSR/Soviet Union
Local council consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers
Stalin
Cold, hard, and impersonal
Five Year Plan
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.
command economy
A system in witch the government made all economic decisions.
collective farms
When the government took all of the farms and stuffed hundreds of family’s in them.
cheka
Bolchevik secret police
gulags
Forced system of labor camps
Siberia
The giant mountain range in the pure right side of Russia
goner
People that got sick and were going to die of starvation
indoctrination
Instruction in the government’s beliefs - to mold people’s minds. Control of education is absolutely essential.
propaganda
Media controlling the people
censorship
control of the information and ideas circulated within a society like press, radio, literature, paintings, film, churches and books.
forced atheism
Forcing people to exercise.
cult of personality
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terror
To be afraid
Mussolini
Politician that ruled Italy.
“mutilated victory”
When Italy didn’t get a lot of land in the treaty of versille
Italian Parliament
Italy’s government
Blackshirts
Mussolini’s soldiers
Hitler
The ruler of the nazis
Weimar Republic
Germany’s New Democratic government setup in 1919
inflation
When it takes more money to buy even the most basic goods