Coercive States

Question 1

Why was democracy disliked?

Answer 1

It was a new concept and seen as divisive

Question 2

What was central to a lot of authoritarian states?

Answer 2

The notion of the new man

Question 3

Which regimes were all alike and why?

Answer 3

Stalinist Russia, Francoist Spain and Nazi Germany were alike because all the regimes emerged from war

Question 4

Where did social separation take place?

Answer 4

USSR, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Spain

Question 5

Why did societies want homogenous populations?

Answer 5

Because they were perceived to be more stable and governable

Question 6

Where were concentration camps used?

Answer 6

Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Britain

Question 7

What was social complicity?

Answer 7

Making other parts of society participate in alienating groups

Question 8

Why was World War One a major trigger for creating community aliens?

Answer 8

The fear induced state of mind it caused, created a state of mind that permitted atrocities and loosened ethical restraints

Question 9

When were the Nuremberg Race Laws issued and what did they do?

Answer 9

1935, they effectively stripped those considered to be of non-German blood of citizenship

Question 10

When was Kristallnacht?

Answer 10

November 1938

Question 11

What happened as the Nazis became secure in their power?

Answer 11

Policy was radicalised

Question 12

When was the Polish Minority Protection Law repealed?

Answer 12

1934

Question 13

When did the Polish government begin a boycott of Jewish businesses?

Answer 13

In the 1930s to create a Polish middle class

Question 14

What was the cost of the Russian Civil War?

Answer 14

The alienation of the entire peasantry

Question 15

How did the Soviet Union attempt to control the peasantry?

Answer 15

Through Forced Collectivisation

Question 16

What was the enemy in the Soviet Union?

Answer 16

Class

Question 17

Who were the first targets of violence and repression in the Soviet Union?

Answer 17

Kulaks and bourgeois intellectuals

Question 18

How many people died in the Ukrainian famine?

Answer 18

2-3,000,000

Question 19

What were the Soviet Union’s welfare measures aimed towards?

Answer 19

Freeing women for integration into the work force

Question 20

When were the Reich Security Laws passed?

Answer 20

January 1933

Question 21

When was Dachau established and who was it to deal with?

Answer 21

1934, to deal with political prisoners

Question 22

Who was sent to Dachau?

Answer 22

Trade unionists, Social Democrats and Communists

Question 23

Who was sent to concentration camps?

Answer 23

Political prisoners, Communists, gypsies, undesirables, Social Democrats, homosexuals and Jews

Question 24

Why did Germans and other nations accept the camps?

Answer 24

Because of fear and because they were seen as a new form of policing

Question 25

Why were Germans, and others across Europe, so concerned about themselves that they cared little for the fate of others?

Answer 25

The background of the depression, hyperinflation and unemployment

Question 26

How many seats did the Nazis gain in the Reichstag in 1930?

Answer 26

143

Question 27

How many seats did the Nazis gain in the Reichstag in 1932?

Answer 27

230

Question 28

When was the Reichstag fire and who was it blamed on?

Answer 28

February 1933, blamed on the Communists and used to ban political parties

Question 29

When was the Enabling Act passed?

Answer 29

March 23, 1933

Question 30

What was the Volksgemeinschaft?

Answer 30

The national community

Question 31

Why did people consent to Nazi rule?

Answer 31

It was improving the situation the majority of people were living in

Question 32

How did Frank Bajohr describe the Third Reich?

Answer 32

A dictatorship of bottom up consent

Question 33

When did Franco pass the Law of Political Responsibility?

Answer 33

February 13, 1939

Question 34

What happened in Malaga in February 1937?

Answer 34

20,000 people were prosecuted in 100 days; 3,000 of these were given the death sentence

Question 35

How many people did Franco's military judges hand down sentences to between 1936 and 1945?

Answer 35

More than 1,000,000

Question 36

When did Franco win the civil war?

Answer 36

April 1, 1939

Question 37

What did Franco want to reverse?

Answer 37

Land and rural labour reforms that had been passed by the Popular Front governments

Question 38

What was Francoism based on?

Answer 38

Radical segregation

Question 39

How many people were murdered during the Spanish Civil War?

Answer 39

100,000

Question 40

How many people were killed in the ten years following the Spanish Civil War?

Answer 40

50,000

Question 41

What did the leaders try to do in Romania?

Answer 41

Create fascist state structures

Question 42

What did the Legion of the Archangel Michael want to do?

Answer 42

They wanted to keep foreigners out of Romania who they believed were threatening the safety and security of the state and Romanian people

Question 43

Why were camps set up in Romania?

Answer 43

To mould the new Romanian man

Question 44

Why did the Bolsheviks have to be ruthless in their creation of the national community?

Answer 44

Because they did not have mass support

Question 45

What kinds of people were seen as a threat to the national community?

Answer 45

Alcoholics, prostitutes and the homeless