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G146 - Dictators
Mr. Dowd's Class - Unit 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Communism | A form of government in which the state owns everything and all citizens share in earnings |
| Totalitarianism | When the government controls all aspects of people's lives, often through the use of secret police, indoctrination, propaganda, censorship, and racial persecution |
| Proletariat | The working class in society |
| Pogroms | Organized persecution of Jewish people |
| Five Year Plan | Stalin's plans for rehabilitating Russia's economy by setting nearly impossible quotas and limiting the production of consumer goods |
| Great Purge | Stalin's attempt to remove potential communist rivals through execution and exile |
| Secret Police | Groups of officials who are loyal to the ruler and spy on various aspects of society, common in totalitarian states |
| Propaganda | One-sided release of news and campaigning to generate good morale and support for an organization |
| Bolsheviks | A branch of radical Marxists that developed during the Russian revolution |
| Soviet | Councils of Socialist peasants, workers, and soldiers who worked to gain local power during the Russian revolution |
| Bloody Sunday | A massacre of Russian families who came to petition Czar Nicholas at his winter palace for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected legislature |
| March Revolution | A movement of strikes and protests that ended Czarist rule in Russia, replacing it with a provisional government |
| Russian Civil War | A conflict between the "Red Army" of Russian Communists and the "White Army" that opposed their rule |
| Red Army | The fighting force of communist parties in Russia and China |
| Kulaks | Wealthy peasant farmers in Russia who opposed collective farms |
| Long March | The retreat of Mao Zedong's communist forces from the Chinese Nationalist attacks |
| Vladimir Lenin | A Russian Communist leader who led his party through the end of the Russian Revolution and took them out of World War 1, he was succeeded by Joseph Stalin |
| Rasputin | A mystic who controlled power through Czarina Alexandra while Russia was occupied with World War 1 |
| Joseph Stalin | The Totalitarian leader who led Russia after the Russian revolution |
| Alexander III | The Russian Czar who halted reforms, secured total Czarist power, and fought against non-Russian nationalism |
| Nicholas II | The Russian Czar who involved his country in World War 1 |
| Leon Trotsky | The brilliant Bolshevik general who led the "Red Army" to victory in the Russian Civil War, he ran against Stalin for rule after Lenin's stroke |
| Sun Yixian | The first great Chinese leader of the Kuomintang party, established the "Three Principles of the People" |
| Appeasement | Giving in to an aggressor to maintain peace |
| Fascism | Intense nationalism and use of military force to accomplish goals |
| Racial Superiority | The belief that one "race" is better than another |
| Eugenics | The belief in the possibility of improving human qualities |
| Work Camp | A place where enemies of state are sent to labor so that they stay out of political matters |
| Collectivization | The process of consolidating private land to improve an industrial or economic situation |
| Invasions | When a country moves its troops into another nation to gain land or resources |
| Black Shirts | Fascist supporters and soldiers |
| Brown Shirts | The private Nazi militia |
| Ideology | Sets of ideas and beliefs that guide peoples' actions |
| Command Economy | When the government controls economic decisions |
| Great Depression | A worldwide economic drought arising from the lack of American financial aid, which came from the United States' own economic "crash" |
| Nazism | Policies of military force, racial cleansing, and fascism in Germany under Adolph Hitler |
| Mein Kampf | The work written by Adolph Hitler while in prison, outlining Nazi ideas and his goals for Germany, its name mean "My Struggle" |
| Lebensraum | Means "Living Room", and the lack of it encouraged Adolph Hitler to conquer nearby lands |
| Axis Powers | The alliance formed by Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Munich Conference | The meeting in which Britain and France appeased Germany with control of Sudetenland, eventually prompting more conquest by Germany |
| Third Reich | Nazi Germany under Hitler's rule, following the Holy Roman Empire, and Otto von Bismarck's unified Germany |
| Sudetenland | A region near Czechoslovakia's western border that was home to many German-speaking people, it was the subject of Hitler's pursuit at the Munich Conference |
| Adolph Hitler | A German military leader who led the Nazi party to control of Germany |
| Joseph Goebbels | Adolph Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, very influential in Nazi Germany |
| Benito Mussolini | The fascist leader in Italy who gained power and support by promising to bring his country glory after failure to gain land in World War 1 |
| General Francisco Franco | The fascist leader who gained control of Spain after receiving aid and support from Italy and Germany (Mussolini and Hitler respectively) during the Spanish Civil War |
| Tojo | The Japanese Prime Minister who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Neville Chamberlain | The British Prime Minister who favored appeasement and gave Germany Sudetenland at the Munich Conference |
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