Unit 7: Rise Of Totalitarianism

Question 1

Unstable new democracies

Answer 1

After WWI, many new democracies were created. The democracies were unstable, because the leader’s lack of experience. Frequent changes in a countries leadership made it hard for them to move towards long term goals

Question 2

Weimar Republic

Answer 2

Germany’s New Democratic government that had serious weaknesses

Question 3

Inflation in Germany

Answer 3

To pay expenses of WWI, Germany printed more money, which decreased its value.

Question 4

The Dawes Plan

Answer 4

American banks gave Germany a $200 million loan to stabilize Germany economically. It helped Germany recover.

Question 5

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 5

Germany’s prime minister and France’s prime minister signed a treaty saying they would not go to war together. The U.S. Secretary of State arranged this agreement and almost every country in the world signed

Question 6

American overproduction

Answer 6

During the 1920s, farmers began producing too much. Farmers couldn’t make a profit or pay bank loans.

Question 7

The Great Depression

Answer 7

The severe economic slump following the stock market crash

Question 8

Global depression

Answer 8

The effect of rest of the world following the Great Depression.

Question 9

Coalition

Answer 9

A government controlled by temporary alliance of several political parties

Question 10

Socialist governments

Answer 10

Socialist governments in Scandinavian countries fixed economic problems through recovery programs with community action

Question 11

New Deal

Answer 11

Roosevelt’s economic reform program designed to solve problems of the Great Depression

Question 12

Totalitarianism

Answer 12

A government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life

Question 13

Police terror

Answer 13

Rulers use police to intimidate the people, use force, and in some cases, kill them

Question 14

Indoctrination

Answer 14

instruction in the government’s beliefs to mold people’s minds

Question 15

Propaganda/censorship

Answer 15

Totalitarian states spread propaganda, biased or incomplete information used to sway people to accept certain beliefs or actions. Control of all mass media allows this to happen. No publication, film, art, or music is allowed to exist without the permission of the state

Question 16

Persecution

Answer 16

Totalitarian leaders often create “enemies of the state” to blame for things that go wrong. Frequently these enemies are members of religious or ethnic groups

Question 17

Great Purge

Answer 17

Stalin’s campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power. Bolsheviks who were part of the Revolution were sent to labor camps or executed

Question 18

Pravada

Answer 18

Russian Communist Party newspaper

Question 19

Education under Stalin

Answer 19

the government controlled all education from nursery schools through the universities.

Question 20

Russian Orthodox Church

Answer 20

Was the main target of persecution. The police destroyed many churches and sent religious leaders to labor camps or killed them

Question 21

Command economy

Answer 21

Russia’s economy under Stalin. The government made all economic decisions

Question 22

Five Year Plan

Answer 22

Stalins plans for Russia that outlined the development of the Soviet economy

Question 23

Collective farms

Answer 23

large, government-owned farms formed by combing many smaller farms

Question 24

Kulaks

Answer 24

Class of wealthy peasants

Question 25

Women in Russia

Answer 25

Women’s roles expanded

Question 26

Fascism

Answer 26

political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state and obedience to its leader

Question 27

Nazism

Answer 27

The Fascist policies of Nationalist German social workers’ party based on totalitarianism, belief in racism superiority and state control of industry

Question 28

Benito Mussolini

Answer 28

Italy’s fascist leader

Question 29

Black shirts

Answer 29

Groups of Fascists wearing black shirts attacked Commu­nists and Socialists on the streets

Question 30

Adolf Hitler

Answer 30

Germany’s dictator

Question 31

Mein Kampf

Answer 31

Book written by Hitler during his imprisonment that outlined his goals for Germany

Question 32

Aryan race

Answer 32

What Hitler believed was the “superior” race

Question 33

Lebensraum

Answer 33

“Living space” the additional land that Germany needed

Question 34

Chancellor

Answer 34

Hitler rose to power from being appointed chancellor and then took more power

Question 35

SS

Answer 35

Originally Hitler’s bodyguards who arrested and murdered his enemies

Question 36

Gestapo

Answer 36

Hitler’s secret police

Question 37

Hitler youth

Answer 37

School children had to join a program that taught them propaganda

Question 38

Kristallnacht

Answer 38

Nazi mobs attacked Jews in their homes and on the streets and destroyed thousands of Jewish-owned buildings

Question 39

Non-aggression pact

Answer 39

10 year agreement signed by Stalin and Hitler