World War 2 Flashcards
(30 cards)
What is totalitarianism?
absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution
Who launched the 5 year plan?
Joseph Stalin
What year was the 5 year plan launched?
1928
Who followed Eugenics?
fascists
What did the fascists glorify?
war and military
Who were the Kronstadt sailors?
the Kronstadt soldiers were Lenin’s “bulldogs” that enforce his rulings
What happened to the Kronstadt sailors?
after life didn’t change- wanted social democratic changes, but the peasants still had to give up their crops and it was more communist, so even the Kronstadt revolted- they stayed in the Kronstadt fortress and fought off the first round of Red soldiers, but then Lenin sent more soldiers at night and some Kronstadt soldiers stayed and fought but lost and were killed, and others fled into Finland
What was the NEP?
an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it “state capitalism”
What is the forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large state-controlled enterprises in the Soviet Union under Stalin?
collectivization of farming
Who were the Kulaks?
a category of relatively affluent farmers in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and early Soviet Union
Who were the two main fascist leaders?
Mussolini and Hitler
What was the fascist nation that killed the “undesirables”?
Germany
What 3 main industries did government control?
banks, railroads, and communications
What was the 21 Conditions in the Soviet Union?
had to call themselves communists, have to recognize that the Soviet Union are the leaders of communism in the world, have to follow the decisions that they make and govern in the style that they do
What were the divisions of the 21 Conditions in the Soviet Union?
creates divisions amongst socialists in Europe (some were willing to follow these conditions and some would not)
What made communists weaker as a group?
they were split- some people would call themselves socialists and some would call themselves communists?
What leader was more nationalistic?
Stalin
What leader wanted to be involved in international affairs?
Trotsky
Where was Trotsky banished first?
Siberia
What was Stalin’s power base?
he was a better organizer- he became “general secretary” of the party, so he gave his friends jobs with power (organizes people below him that will support him and take Trotsky down)
What plan was the first 5 year plan essentially against?
New Economic Plan
What was Stalin’s biggest fear?
that capitalism would rise again
What was the main resistance in agriculture?
if peasants couldn’t keep their own crops and animals, than the state couldn’t have them either- they would destroy their crops and kill their livestock
What terrible thing happened in Ukraine?
it wasn’t really part of the Soviet Union, so when they started resisting, Stalin cut off food sources and introduced a man made famine and over 6 million people died
