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maxush-Totalitarian Governments
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| government that controls all aspects of life, doesn't tolerate opposition | totalitarian government |
| government of one or a group, does not allow opposition | dictatorship |
| Italian dictator, founder of Fascism, promised to expand Italy, rebuild its economy and military | Benito Mussolini |
| anti-communist, believed nation more important than individual, supported expansion | fascism |
| Italian militia, Mussolini's enforcers | Black Shirts |
| early communist party in Russia | Bolshevik |
| Bolshevik leader of the Russia | Vladimir Lenin |
| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, communist name for Russia and neighboring territories | USSR |
| Only one party on ballot, used in Soviet Union | one party rule |
| Leader of USSR after Lenin dies, eliminmated opposition within government and country | Joseph Stalin |
| National Socialist German Workers Party, very nationalistic and anti-communist | Nazi Party |
| Leader of the Nazi party | Adolf Hitler |
| belief that aryan/germans superior to other races | master race |
| Book written by Hitler, explains his theories on expansion, racial superiority, and problems with Jews | Mein Kampf |
| Second highest position in German government Hitler elected to in 1933 with 40% of the vote | chancellor |
| supreme leader of all German people, position Hitler assumes | fuhrer |
| in need of resources and land for it's growing population | Japan |
| occupied by Japanese military without governments permission, takes control of country | Manchuria |
| argued that industry had made huge profits off of World War One and debts to US not repaid | Nye Committee |
| avoiding any international commitments | Isolationism |
| illegal to sell weapons to nations at war | Neutrality Act 1935 |
| continued weapons ban and non-war material to be sold on "cash and carry" basis | Neutrality Act 1937 |
| area between Germany and France reoccupied by Germany in 1936 | Rhineland |
| Spanish monarchy overthrown, used by Germany and Italy as a practice war | Spanish Civil War |
| leader of Spanish opposition, supported by Germans and Italians | Gen. Francisco Franco |
| believed trade among countries would create prosperity and prevent war | internationalism |
| Germany, Italy, and Japan form, claim to oppose spread of communism | Anti-Comintern Pact |
| name for alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan | Axis Powers |
| 1937 Japan invades China, FDR called incident and Neutrality Acts do not apply | China Incident |