Unit 6 Totalitarianism

Question 1

Command economy

Answer 1

A system in Russia where the government has total control over businesses.

Question 2

Which country was Fascist first?

Answer 2

Italy

Question 3

5 year plans(Stalin)

Answer 3

Series of goals to industrialize and strengthen Soviet union’s economy

Question 4

How did Stalin enforce his policies?

Answer 4

Brutally, did whatever was necessary

Question 5

What do Fascism and Communism both believe in?

Answer 5

Nationalism

Question 6

Fascism

Answer 6

Core value is nationalism; government controls businesses

Question 7

Kulaks

Answer 7

Wealthy peasants who owned large farms in Russia

Question 8

Comintern

Answer 8

Advocated world communism, abolished by Stalin

Question 9

Kristallnacht

Answer 9

“Night of Broken Glass”, when Nazis attacked Jewish people and properties on November 9-10

Question 10

What political system did the Italians fear?

Answer 10

Communism

Question 11

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 11

Said that Jewish were no longer citizens

Question 12

Why did the US reject the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 12

Feared it would make US troops get involved without congress approval

Question 13

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 13

Goal was worldwide peace; Hitler wanted to undo it to grow Germany’s army so it was appeased to keep peace

Question 14

Great Depression

Answer 14

Right before WW2, the world’s economy crashed and it made people want to follow certain leaders

Question 15

Benito Mussolini

Answer 15

Italian who founded facism and inspired Hitler

Question 16

Great Purge

Answer 16

Led by Stalin, aimed to eliminate anyone considered a threat to his party (communists specifically); many were arrested and killed

Question 17

Who did the Treaty of Versailles put most of the blame on?

Answer 17

Germany

Question 18

Joseph Stalin

Answer 18

Soviet leader who changed agriculture by using machines, limited consumer goods in industrialization, industrialization improved in Russia because of him. He lead the great purge where millions died under his rule

Question 19

Franklin Roosevelt

Answer 19

President during the Great Depression and WW2

Question 20

In Communism who controls the economic system?

Answer 20

The state

Question 21

Fascist leaders push which idea?

Answer 21

state > individual freedoms

Question 22

Which type of government believed in class struggle?

Answer 22

Communism

Question 23

Adolf Hitler

Answer 23

Started WW2, hated Jews and was a fascist

Question 24

Totalitarianism

Answer 24

Government has total control and prohibits opposing political parties

Question 25

Who had problems post-WW1?

Answer 25

Eastern Europe

Question 26

Why did the US not join the League of Nations?

Answer 26

Didn’t want to get involved in other paces issues

Question 27

Did peasants get their own land in the Russian Agricultural Revolution?

Answer 27

Yes but it was bad quality and heavy taxed

Question 28

Lost generation

Answer 28

Those lost in WW1

Question 29

Where was Marxism believed?

Answer 29

Russia

Question 30

In fascism does the government have complete control?

Answer 30

Yes

Question 31

Who controls business in Communist society?

Answer 31

Governemnt

Question 32

Collectivization

Answer 32

Government owned farms

Question 33

What did Hitler promise to build back up?

Answer 33

Economy and Military