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Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism Vocabulary and Definitions for the DBQ
| the word | the definition |
|---|---|
| The Great Purge | Stalin’s period of ridding his enemies |
| Nazi | national socialism |
| Collective farms | large government owned farms |
| Fuhrer | German for father |
| Kulaks | wealthy Russian peasants who resisted Stalin’s rule |
| Il Duce | Mussolini |
| Totalitarian regime | state regulation of nearly every aspect of public and private behavior |
| Brown Shirts | a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP — the German Nazi party |
| Communism | complete socialism |
| SS | a major Nazi military organization |
| Fascism | an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers the individual subordinate to the interests of the state, party or society as a whole |
| Propaganda | persuasion |
| Weimar Republic | nickname of Nazi Germany |
| Mein Kampf | a book written by Hitler |
| Third Reich | another name for the Nazi Germany |
| Five Year Plan | Stalin’s plan of industrialization |
| Appeasement | things made to please or satisfy Germany |
| Gestapo | Nazi Germany’s secret police |
| Munich Pact | an agreement between Britain, France, and Germany that Germany could annex Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia |
| Sudetenland | Czechoslovakia’s chief defense area, the area where Germany annexed |
| Kristallnacht | a pogrom against Jews throughout Germany |
| Non Aggression pact | a bilateral pact between France Russia with the aim of containing German aggression in 1935 |
| Rape of Nanking | an infamous genocidal war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing |
| Manchuria | A region in northern China |
| Mussolini | the Italian Fascist dictator |
| Stalin | the Russian Communist dictator |
| Hitler | the German Nazi dictator |
| Franco | the leader of Spain |
| Neville Chamberlain | president of Britain |
| Tojo | the Japanese prime minister during World War II |