Totaltaritism Flashcards
Change in Women’s Roles?
Encouraged to focus on more traditional Women roles
Women fought for their rights
Pushed out of Workforce
How did totalitarian leaders ride to power?
Propaganda
Manipulation
Suppression
Exploited economic crisis
American Pop Culture
Vibrant/Diverse
Lots of music/dancing
Flappers
Where France/GB Winners or losers of WW1?
They both had success with country outgrowth and cultural additions
They both struggled with colonization and inequality
Adolf Hitler
Leader of Nazi Party
Militaristic Strategics and ruthless tactics resulted in mass casualties
In 1945 he killed himself in his own bunker
Benito Mussolini
Leader of the Fascist Italy
Authoritarian, Nationalism, and Suppression
Overthrown by his own government
Joseph Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union
Industrialization, agriculture, centralized command economy
Soviet union against Germany during World War II
Fascism
Extreme nationalism
Suppression of individual rights
Authoritarianism
Nazism
Extreme nationalism, racial, security, pursuit of totalitarian state
Anti-Semitism
Racial supremacy and rejection of democracy
Communism
Classless society
Collective ownership
Suppression of individual rights
Maginot Line
Line of fortifications built by France
Series of heavily, fortified underground bunkers
Significant symbol of defense strategies
Dawes Plan
Economic initiative to address Germany’s war reparations after World War I
Under planned, Germany, receive loans from foreign investors
Not long-term
Totalitarianism
Central and dural control over all aspects of public and private life
Suppressing individual freedoms, controlling the media and suppressing opposition
Great Depression
Period of severe economic downturn
Started with stock market crash
A lot of poverty
Responses to the Great Depression
Government intervention
New deal
Economic reforms
International cooperation
Social movements
