Totalitarianism Flashcards
Stalin promoted a policy of enforcing Russian history, language and culture onto all of the Soviet Republics
Russification
Attacked real/imagined opponents of his rule; thousands of Communist leaders, military officers, citizens sent to Gulag or executed;
Great Purge
Stalin’s economic policy to rebuild the Soviet economy after WWI. tried to improve heavy industry and improve farm output, but resulted in famine
Five Year Plan
Stalin simply took the food/grain of those who opposed or might oppose him and sent the grain to the cities and the workers– over 5 million people were killed!!!!
Terror Famine in Ukraine
Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Gulag
The government controlled all sources of information. Schools taught Nazi ideas and children joined the Hitler Youth. Forbidden books were burned.
Propaganda
Only the Nazi Party was allowed and rival political parties were outlawed. The Gestapo(secret police) arrested and executed people w/out a trial.
How did the Nazi’s prevent people from having individual rights?
Jews lost their property and citizenship. Their shops and synagogues were destroyed. They were forced to wear the yellow star of David on their clothing. They were moved to ghettos and concentration camps.
Anti-Semitism
German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire’s monarchy. Its constitution did not receive loyalty from Germans, and permitted a temporary presidential dictatorship in an emergency, as well as allowed small Lacked support and coup attempts occur. Violence marked the first five years of this republic.
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
starting with collapse of the US stock market in 1929, period of worldwide economic stagnation and depression. Sharp declines in income and production as buying and selling slowed down. Widespread unemployment, countries raised tariffs to protect their industries.
Great Depression
Work written by Hitler while in prison in 1923; the book outlines his policies for German expansion, war, and elimination of non-Aryans
Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
The Third Republic of Germany which began Hitler’s rule in 1933 and ended with his defeat in 1945
Third Reich (Nazism)
“Night of Broken Glass”-the night of Nov. 9, 1938, on which Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany
Kristellnacht
Laws that deprived Jews of their rights to German citizenship, forbade Jew + Non-jew marriages, start of legal discrimination toward Jews
Nuremburg Laws (1935)
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Totalitarianism
A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
Fascism
The Italian founder of the Fascist party who came to power in Italy in 1922 and allied himself with Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers during the Second World War.
Benito Mussolini (Il Duce)
The Nazi leader who came to power legally in Germany in 1933. He set up a totalitarian dictatorship and led Germany into World War II.
Adolph Hitler
German secret police
Gestapo
9 November 1923. Inspired by Mussolini’s March on Rome. The putsch failed because Hitler was captured and imprisoned. The putsch was a success because it showed the weakness of the government and put Nazi party on the grid. It also showed the power of the Nazi party.
Munich Putsch/Beer Hall Putsch
Organizations set up under Hitler to train an educate German young people in Nazi beliefs
Hitler Youth
Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict
Appeasement
The Japanese army’s systematic killing, mutilation, and rape of the Chinese civilian population of Nanjing in 1938.
Nanking, Rape of
Extreme sense of pride to your country. Extreme nationalism in Japan they believed the Japanese were the most superior race on earth & should have large empire
Ultranationalist
Leaders of imperial Japan; took over regions including Manchuria, Korea, and a large portion of China before WWII
Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo
