totalitarianism and the holocaust Flashcards

(30 cards)

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totalitarianism

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gov that has total authority over the society, controls public/ private business

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bolshiveks

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takes power in 1917
followers of lenin
reds or communists

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3
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checka

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hunted people in russia that didnt beleive in lenin

sort of like police

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4
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benito mussolini

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  • italy
  • fasciist
  • territorial settlments/ economics
  • used black shirts to stay in power
  • known as il duce
  • created totaliterianism
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fasces

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fascism: glorified military, considered war an acceptable way to achieve goals
hitler/Mussolini

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black shirts

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mussolini’s followers, were used to stay in power

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atheism

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the belief in no god

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Stalin

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  • communist views
  • head of USSR after lenin died
  • used 5 year plans as dictator
  • used these plans to change industry, agriculture, and collectivization
  • killed own people in purges
  • citizens “loved” him (cult of personality)
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socialism

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means of production are owned by communists

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command economy

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government has complete control over prices and production of goods

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marxism

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believed industrialization was to blame for change in humanity
gap between rich and poor, growing
believed that either rich distribute wealth, or workers revolt

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leninism

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  • fascinated by industrialization

- believed that industrialization would lead communism, not the common man

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the great purge

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stalin kills everyone that isn’t 100% communist russia

anywhere from association with the enemy to being the enemy, were charged with treason and killed

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nazi party

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hitlers “army” in germany

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Hitler

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  • leader of nazi party
  • wrote mein kampf
  • called himself fuhrer
  • wanted to expand german, called lebenraum
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germany post war problems

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inflation and devastated by the treaty of versailles

lost a lot of land, money, army

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kristallnacht

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  • was set of by the assasination of a german official in paris, killed by a jew
  • joseph goebals organized it
  • jewish building burned
  • police/ fireman did nothing
  • fire men put out non-jewish buildings
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holocaust

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  • hitler viewed aryans as “the master race”
  • made his empire the third reich “pure”, eliminated jews
  • genocide
  • jews were round up and shot, then started to get worked to death.
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concentration camps

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forced to do slave labor

20
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extermination camps

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where they were sent for execution

21
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genocide

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the systematic and planned extermination of a group of people

22
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swastika

23
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auschwitz

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notorious camp, was concentration and extermination

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Lenin

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  • distributed land to peasants

- set framework for the new soviet union with the communist party

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anit-semitism
jews were prosecuted because germany thought that they were the reason germany lost in ww1
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nuremberg laws
laws excluded german jews from reich citizenship, prohibited them from marrying/ having sex with anyone of "german related blood"
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fuhrer
what hitler called himself, otherwise know as leader
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final solution
exterminating all of the jews in europe
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hitler youth
- an organization that tought children loyalty to hitler - physical training, athleticism, fighting - kids took it very seriously, (boy got shot for not knowing password, by another boy) - performance books were issued to track progress
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reds and whites
communits; reds | everyone else; whites (czarists, capitalists..)