totalitarianism and the holocaust

Question 1

totalitarianism

Answer 1

gov that has total authority over the society, controls public/ private business

Question 2

bolshiveks

Answer 2

takes power in 1917
followers of lenin
reds or communists

Question 3

checka

Answer 3

hunted people in russia that didnt beleive in lenin

sort of like police

Question 4

benito mussolini

Answer 4

• italy
• fasciist
• territorial settlments/ economics
• used black shirts to stay in power
• known as il duce
• created totaliterianism

Question 5

fasces

Answer 5

fascism: glorified military, considered war an acceptable way to achieve goals
hitler/Mussolini

Question 6

black shirts

Answer 6

mussolini’s followers, were used to stay in power

Question 7

atheism

Answer 7

the belief in no god

Question 8

Stalin

Answer 8

• communist views
• head of USSR after lenin died
• used 5 year plans as dictator
• used these plans to change industry, agriculture, and collectivization
• killed own people in purges
• citizens “loved” him (cult of personality)

Question 9

socialism

Answer 9

means of production are owned by communists

Question 10

command economy

Answer 10

government has complete control over prices and production of goods

Question 11

marxism

Answer 11

believed industrialization was to blame for change in humanity
gap between rich and poor, growing
believed that either rich distribute wealth, or workers revolt

Question 12

leninism

Answer 12

• fascinated by industrialization

- believed that industrialization would lead communism, not the common man

Question 13

the great purge

Answer 13

stalin kills everyone that isn’t 100% communist russia

anywhere from association with the enemy to being the enemy, were charged with treason and killed

Question 14

nazi party

Answer 14

hitlers “army” in germany

Question 15

Hitler

Answer 15

• leader of nazi party
• wrote mein kampf
• called himself fuhrer
• wanted to expand german, called lebenraum

Question 16

germany post war problems

Answer 16

inflation and devastated by the treaty of versailles

lost a lot of land, money, army

Question 17

kristallnacht

Answer 17

• was set of by the assasination of a german official in paris, killed by a jew
• joseph goebals organized it
• jewish building burned
• police/ fireman did nothing
• fire men put out non-jewish buildings

Question 18

holocaust

Answer 18

• hitler viewed aryans as “the master race”
• made his empire the third reich “pure”, eliminated jews
• genocide
• jews were round up and shot, then started to get worked to death.

Question 19

concentration camps

Answer 19

forced to do slave labor

Question 20

extermination camps

Answer 20

where they were sent for execution

Question 21

genocide

Answer 21

the systematic and planned extermination of a group of people

Question 22

swastika

Answer 22

nazi symbol

Question 23

auschwitz

Answer 23

notorious camp, was concentration and extermination

Question 24

Lenin

Answer 24

• distributed land to peasants

- set framework for the new soviet union with the communist party

Question 25

anit-semitism

Answer 25

jews were prosecuted because germany thought that they were the reason germany lost in ww1

Question 26

nuremberg laws

Answer 26

laws excluded german jews from reich citizenship, prohibited them from marrying/ having sex with anyone of “german related blood”

Question 27

fuhrer

Answer 27

what hitler called himself, otherwise know as leader

Question 28

final solution

Answer 28

exterminating all of the jews in europe

Question 29

hitler youth

Answer 29

• an organization that tought children loyalty to hitler
• physical training, athleticism, fighting
• kids took it very seriously, (boy got shot for not knowing password, by another boy)
• performance books were issued to track progress

Question 30

reds and whites

Answer 30

communits; reds

everyone else; whites (czarists, capitalists..)