totalarism

Question 1

What is totalitarianism?

Answer 1

Government that controls all aspects of the lives of its citizens.

Totalitarian regimes believe that citizens are to be sacrificed for the benefit of the state.

Question 2

Define communism.

Answer 2

Economic and political system where all means of production are owned by ‘the people’. Private property does not exist.

Question 3

What was the Russian Revolution?

Answer 3

Conflict between the Red Army Communists (Bolsheviks) and the White Army (anti-communists).

Question 4

What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

Answer 4

Russia exits WW1, giving up large territory to Germany.

Question 5

Who was Lenin?

Answer 5

Leader of the Bolsheviks (Communists).

Question 6

How did Stalin rise to power?

Answer 6

By placing his ‘friends’ and allies in government positions of power who support him.

Question 7

Who was Trotsky?

Answer 7

Stalin’s opponent for leadership, exiled, then murdered by Stalin’s agent in Mexico City.

Question 8

What was the Great Purge?

Answer 8

Stalin killing people he doesn’t trust in government and the military.

Question 9

What was the Cheka?

Answer 9

Stalin’s secret police.

Question 10

Who were the Bolsheviks?

Answer 10

Russian Communists.

Question 11

What is a command economy?

Answer 11

System where the government makes all economic decisions.

Question 12

What are collective farms?

Answer 12

Government-owned farms.

Question 13

Define kulaks.

Answer 13

‘Well-off’ peasant farmers.

Question 14

What were the Gulags?

Answer 14

Stalin’s ‘work’ camps/prisons.

Question 15

Ukraine forced starvation killing how many people?

Answer 15

Killed 8-10 million.

Question 16

What were the 5-Year Plans?

Answer 16

Stalin’s plans to industrialize the Soviet Union quickly to catch up with Western nations.

Question 17

Define fascism.

Answer 17

Government with a dictatorship of the extreme right, merging of state and business leadership, and extreme nationalism.

Question 18

Who was Mussolini?

Answer 18

Newspaper editor and politician who promised to rescue Italy by reviving the economy and rebuilding the military.

Question 19

What were the Blackshirts?

Answer 19

Mussolini’s private army of his followers.

Question 20

How did Hitler rise to power?

Answer 20

Joined the Nazis in 1919, rose to leadership, and claimed he alone could solve Germany’s problems during the Great Depression.

Question 21

What were the Brownshirts?

Answer 21

Hitler’s private army of his followers.

Question 22

What was the Beer Hall Putsch?

Answer 22

Hitler’s coup attempt leading to his treason conviction.

Question 23

What is Mein Kampf?

Answer 23

‘My Struggle’ - Hitler’s book describing his beliefs in German (Aryan) superiority.

Question 24

What does the swastika symbolize?

Answer 24

Symbol of the Nazis, originally meant ‘good luck’ in Indian culture.

Question 25

What were the Gestapo and S.S.?

Answer 25

Hitler's private military/secret police, pledging devotion to Hitler, not Germany.

Question 26

Define Lebensraum.

Answer 26

'Living space' - Hitler claimed Germans needed more land for population and culture growth.

Question 27

What was the 1933 Enabling Act?

Answer 27

Gave Hitler complete dictatorial powers after the burning of the Reichstag.

Question 28

What is the Nazi Party?

Answer 28

National Socialist Worker’s Party, commonly known as 'Nazi'.

Question 29

How did Hitler and Mussolini use propaganda?

Answer 29

To promote fear of communism and position themselves as solutions for stability.

Question 30

Who were the Axis Powers?

Answer 30

Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan.

Question 31

What happened at the Munich Conference?

Answer 31

Britain and France agreed to allow Hitler to annex Western Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland) to avoid war.

Question 32

What was the Third Reich?

Answer 32

Hitler's fascist government, Germany's '3rd Empire'.

Question 33

What was the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact?

Answer 33

Agreement to divide Eastern Europe between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Question 34

What is Dada?

Answer 34

Art movement that seeks to disturb and shock the viewer.

Question 35

Define the Lost Generation.

Answer 35

Post WW1 writers who express disillusionment with society and governments.

Question 36

What is surrealism?

Answer 36

Art movement to link the world of dreams with real life.

Question 37

What happened to the Ottoman Empire after WW1?

Answer 37

It lost the war, and its empire was divided up between the Allies.

Question 38

What are the Middle East problems related to the Versailles Treaty?

Answer 38

Involves Palestinian Arabs and Israelis, traced back to the treaty and the UN plan to divide Palestine.

Question 39

What is Pan-Arabism?

Answer 39

Desire for Arab independence from colonial powers.

Question 40

What is a significant tension in the Balkans?

Answer 40

Conflicts between Muslims and Christians that continue into the 21st century.