Ch. 29 Key Terms Flashcards
Lenins policy to re-establish limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration.
New Economic Policy (NEP)
launched by Stalin and termed revolution from above, the ultimate goal of the plans was to generate new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity.
Five Year Plan
the forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled enterprises.
Collectivization
better-off peasants who were stripped under Stalin of land and livestock. They were generally not permitted to join the collective farms and many of them starved or were deported to force-labor camps for re-education.
Kulaks
a 1929 agreement that recognized the Vatican as a tiny independent state, with Mussolini agreeing to give the church heavy financial support. In turn, the pope expressed his satisfaction and urged Italians to support Mussolinis government.
Lateran Agreement
a movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolph Hitler for as long as it lasted.
Nazism
leader-dictator with unlimited, arbitrary power, this name was bestowed upon Adolf Hitler.
Führer
act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis which gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years.
Enabling act
lightening war using planes, tanks, and trucks, the first example of which Hitler used to crush Poland in four weeks.
Blitzkrieg
Hitler program based on the guiding principle of racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples. The French, an inferior Latin people, occupied a middle position. Slavs in the conquered territories to the east were treated with harsh hatred as subhumans.
New Order
American policy that promised huge military aid and helped solidify the anti-Hitler coalition.
Europe’s First
a movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, an antisocialism aimed at destroying working-class movements, alliances with powerful capitalists and landowners, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military.
Fascism
