Fascism/Communism

Question 1

Methods of manipulation/dictatorship

Answer 1

1. indoctrination
2. controlling information
3. controlled participation
4. scapegoating
5. cult of leadership
6. secret police
7. purges

Question 2

indoctrination

Answer 2

forcibly educating people for the gov’s belief

- youth groups

Question 3

controlled participation

Answer 3

gov must have people participate to keep control

- party membership, votes

Question 4

controlling information

Answer 4

gov controls media access to people

- media/internet

Question 5

scapegoating

Answer 5

directing frustration towards a common focus

- capitalists

Question 6

cult of leadership

Answer 6

leader is at god like status

- stalin, paternalistic society

Question 7

secret police

Answer 7

police directly under the control of a leader

- GPU, KGB, Red army

Question 8

purges

Answer 8

anyone who threatens the goals of the state is removed

- old bolshevik, show trials

Question 9

treaty of versailles

Answer 9

ended WWI with germany accepting full blame

Reparations- germany pays reichsmarks, gave hitler scapegoating

Question 10

Weimar republic

Answer 10

blamed for versailles, hyperinflation, instability

• radical left- abandoned the ideals of workers movement
• reactionary right- democracy was flawed, return to old system

Question 11

Nazi’s

Answer 11

National socialist german workers party
- inspired by Bento Mussolini 
- force and terror 
- anti-semitism- making jews a target
hitler believed in indoctrination

Question 12

Munich Putsch/ Beer hall putsch

Answer 12

nov 1923- unsuccessful attempt (coup) by nazi’s to take over gov.
Mussolini’s march on rome
hitler was arrested

Question 13

Reichstag fire 1933

Answer 13

germany’s parliament building was set on fire

• believed nazi’s or communists set fire
• passed the enabling act to give emergency power to executive branch

Question 14

Autocracy

Answer 14

workers forced to join national labour front

• goal: make germany self-sufficient
• industries nationalized, private industries flourished

Question 15

Night of long knives

Answer 15

SA- brownshirts
SS- blackshirts
1934- SS murdered SA (purge)

Question 16

Anti-semitism

Answer 16

hitler believed that some were superior than others. (aryans at top)

• slaves were servants, but blacks and jews were undesirable and removed from the reich
• dictatorship

Question 17

Kristallnacht

Answer 17

night of broken glass

• a pogrom (gov sponsored attack group) on jews
• jews sent to concentration camps runned by SS & GESTAPO under command of heinrich himmler

Question 18

rejection- rule of law

Answer 18

no seperation of power, no accountability, politburo

Question 19

rejection- individual R & F

Answer 19

state controlled, censorship, Gulag, purge

Question 20

rejection- private property

Answer 20

nationalization, collectivization

Question 21

rejection- economic freedom

Answer 21

GOSPLAN, Kulaks

Question 22

rejection- self interest

Answer 22

state goals

Question 23

rejection- competition

Answer 23

nationalization of industries

Question 24

dictatorship

Answer 24

gov is ruled by an individual with unchecked power

Question 25

authoritarian

Answer 25

gov whose leader is unaccountable

Question 26

totalitarian

Answer 26

gov controls all areas of human life

Question 27

Mein Kampf

Answer 27

my struggle | - third reich in germany

Question 28

propaganda

Answer 28

Joesph Goebbels, censorship, controlling information

Question 29

nuremberg laws

Answer 29

jews were no longer german citizens

Question 30

USSR

Answer 30

extreme left, authoritarian, totalitarian | -stalin, soviets

Question 31

Nazi

Answer 31

extreme right, authoritarian, totalitarian | - hitler, germany