29 Dictatorships and the second world war KEY TERMS Flashcards
five year plan
1928 Stalin launched this to transform Soviet society along socialist lines
New Economic Police (NEP)
March 1921 Lenin re established limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry
collectivization
the forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled enterprises
kulaks
the better off peasants, any peasant opposed to the new system
Black Shirts
Mussolini’s growing private army
Lateran Agreement
Mussolini drew increasing support from the Catholic Church in 1929; recognized the Vatican as a tiny independent state
NAzism
most influential were extreme nationalism and racism
Karl Lueger
Vienna’s mayor succeeded in showing Hitler the enormous potential of anticapitalist and anti liberal propaganda
Enabling Act
gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years
appeasement
Britain adopted this policy, granting Hitler everything he could reasonably want in order to avoid war
Blitzkrieg
“lightning war”, Hitler’s armies crushed Poland in four weeks.
New Order
based on Nazi totalitarianism: racial imperialism. Nordic people -Dutch, Norwegians, Danes- received preferential treatment
