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SC 7 Totalitarian States 7-4-4
Question | Answer |
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censorship | banning of all written, spoken, or visual messages critical of the government |
media | systems or forms of communication such as newspapers, radio, and television programs |
Black Shirts | followers of Mussolini's Facist Party |
fascism | Calls for an all-powerful dictator backed by the military. Glorifies the state above the individual. Allows personal property and wealth |
communism | Ends all class differences and all private property. Belief that someday people will hold property in common, or together, and government will wither away. |
Reichstag | The lower house of the German legislature |
Enabling Act | Act allowing the government to ignore the constitution so as to solve Germany's economic problems |
anti-Semitism | intense dislike and prejudice against the Jewish people |
Stalinism | led by Joseph Stalin-policies that created a brutal form of communism imposed by a small group of party leaders |
purge | to forcibly remove often by execution or imprisonment |
Politburo | the policy-making body of the Communist Party |
Five-Year Plans | these plans set economic goals for five-year periods with one main purpose: to change the country as quickly as possible from an agricultural or farming economy into an industiral economy |
collectivize | combined small farms into larger ones-farms were run by the government and peasants were forced to work on them |
militarism | a system of government where a nation puts its military above all else and uses it to achieve national goals |
authoritarian | governments or dictatorships led by one person or group |
Benito Mussolini | facets Italian leader, ally of Hitler |
Joseph Stalin | communist leader of Russia after Lenin's eat, killed 30 million of his own people |
Hitler Youth | organizations teaching German boys and girls Nazism |