World War II Flashcards
Conservative authoritarianism
Committed to existing social order,
American stock market crash
Triggered global financial crisisdeclines in global trade/manufacturing,
Totalitarianism
Total control over the lives of individual citizens,
Facism
One leader/one party, condemned democracy, glorIfied war, control over the media
Communism
One party, leadership of the proletariat, condemned capitalism, glorified the working class
Vladamir lenin
New economic policy, temporary compromise with capialism, successfully revived the Russian economy
Joseph Stalin
Expelled Leon Trotsky, previously general secretary of the communist party
The five-year plans
To end the new economic policy, create socialist command economy, promote rapid deveope,ent of heavy industries, collectivize agriculture
Kulaks
Resisted collectivization, executed, starved, sent to labor camps