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TotalitarianGovTest
The rise of Totalitarian Governments
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Comintern | Encouraged world-wide communist revolution |
| Gestapo | Nazi secret police or Brown shirts |
| Totalitarian state | Is a one-party dictatorship that tries to regulate all aspects of its citizens' lives |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass" |
| Black Shirts | Were militant supporters of Benito Mussolini |
| Flappers | Were liberated young women of the Jazz Age |
| Gulag | A system of over 90 brutal Russian labor camps |
| Harlem Renaissance | An African American cultural awakening in New York |
| Prohibition | U.S. ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist leader |
| Third Reich | Hitler new government he believed would rule Europe for a thousand years |
| Th country that emerged form World War I in the best financial shape was | United States. |
| In what ways did Fascists differ form Communists? | Communists wanted to spread communism internationally, Fascists wanted to strengthen their own nation. |
| How did Hitler come to power? | It was transferred to him when Hindenburg died. |
| Speakeasies | an illicit liquor store or nightclub. |
| Great Depression | a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s |
| March on Rome | an organized mass demonstration which resulted in Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party ascending to power Italy |
| Fascism | a form of government where a dictatorial power, forcibly suppressed opposition, and controles society and of the economy |
| Communism | A classless society where the government controls all aspects of peoples lives |
| Oligarchy | Oligarchy is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. |
| Collective | a policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms |
| Stalin | Russian Communist Leader |
| Adolf Hitler | German fascist leader |
| How many people died because of famine under Stalin? | 6 to 8 million |