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WWII
Dictators
Term | Definition |
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Mussolini (ITALY) | outlawed all other political parties, propaganda encouraged Italians to accept his leadership, outlawed stikes and unions |
Hitler (GERMANY) | anti-semitism, gestapo secret police, controlled media, munich conference, spanish civil war |
Lenin (Russia) | New Economic policy- comprimise with capitalism, small businesses taken, allowed free markets for agricultural products. control of large industries like steel and oil |
Stalin | five year plans (New Economic policy, socialist command economy, rapid development of heavy industries, collectivized agriculture) |
The Great Terror | trails to eliminate the old bolsheviks. extended to army officers, party members, citizens |
Brenzhnev | de-stalinization, sputnik, the berlin wall, cuban missile crisis, |
Gorbachev | blamed the poor living conditions on the political system and economy. launched reforms |
Glasnost | openness of media |
Perestroika | economic restructuring to revitalize soviet economy |
Demokratizatsiya | losen the communist party grip on society. democratization election for a new legislature. |