Interwar Study Guide Flashcards
Totalitarianism
The term for a government that has totaled control over the lives of individual citizens
Those who rule cannot be held accountable for their actions, and are not responsible from the will of their people
Fascism
A political movement originally founded by Mussolini that prompted an extreme form of nationalism; a denial of individual rights
Hitler
Germ Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945), Nazi leader and founder; had over 6 million Jews assassinated during the Holocaust
Aryan
Nazi party prompted this false notion that glorified the German people as members of the “Aryan race”, which did not include Jews
It decided who belonged in the German society, and who did not
Collectivization
A system in which private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government
Government owned all land, and the peasants worked it
How did the peasants respond to collectivization
Peasants resisted by hoarding crops and killing livestock
Depression
An economic crisis roughly beginning with the U.S. stock market crash in October, 1929, and continually through the 1930s
How did German respond to the global effect they felt during the Great Depression
It was one of the reasons there was a rise of the Nazi
Five Year Plan
In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin created his Five Year Plan. It focused on the production of military and capital goods.
When did then first two plans of the plan take place
Between 1928 and 1937
How much did steel production increase
From 4 million to 18 million tons per year
Who was Stalin?
He was a Bolshevik revolutionary, and head of the Soviet Union
He became the dictator of the Soviet Union in…
1928
He strongly led the______, using the_____ to increase the industrial production and terror to crush______
Soviet Union, Five Year plan, opposition
Why was Mussolini’s movement appealing to the Italian middle class
Mussolini used various means to establish complete control over the Italian movement. This gave Italian fascists the opportunity to take control of the mass media
