Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party 

Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945

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Atheism

Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist.

the belief that there is no god

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Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist

He organized veterans and other discontented Italians into Fascist Party; "il Duce": the boss

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Black Shirts

The Blackshirts are the first-string defensive unit players for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

party militants and supporters of Mussolini who rejected the democratic process in favor of violent actions

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks were born out of Russia's Social Democrat

A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917.

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Chancellor

Chancellor is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations.

in 1919, German leaders drafted a constitution in the city of Wiemar. It created the Wiemar Republic. The constitution set up a parliamentary system led by a Prime Minister; appointed by & reports to the President

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Cheka

Cheka, this Soviet secret police soon became the symbol for a system of terror such as the world had never seen.

secret police, formed by Lenin and the Bolsheviks: made arrests, tortured and executed thousands, took hostages in areas that favored the Whites, ran concentration camps, executed thousands, including the former Tsar Nicolas II and his family

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Collectives

collective (not comparable). Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated. the collective body of a nation.

Stalin wanted all peasants to farm on state-owned farms, or large farms owned by peasants as a group

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Comintern

The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International

Lenin formed the Communist International, an association of Communist parties founded in 1919 by Russian Bolshevik leader Lenin, to promote the spread of the revolution and the preaching of communist principles throughout Europe

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Command Economy

A command economy is a system where the government, rather than the free market

the Soviet Union developed a system in which the government officials made all basic economic decisions

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Fascism

Fascism /ˈfæʃɪzəm/ is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe

centralized, authoritarian government that is not communist whose polices glorify the state over individual and are destructive to basic human rights

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Führer

Führer , is a German word meaning "leader" or "guide".

the unique name granted by Hitler to himself, german term meaning "leader" or "guide", Hitler modeled the title after Benito Mussolini's use of il Duce.

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Gestapo

The Gestapo breviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, or the Secret State Police, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.

German acronym for the German Secret State Police, part of the SS notorious for terrorism against enemies of the state.

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Gulag

The Gulag was the government agency that administered and controlled the Soviet forced-labor camp system during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s

grumblers, or critics of Stalin, were rounded up and sent to a system of brutal labor camps

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marx wrote and published many works during his life

Often recognized as the "father of communism"; believed that communism would replace capitalism, believed in a classless society. (1818-1883)

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. 

Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition; "man of steel" (1879-1953)

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Kulaks

kurkuls in Ukraine, also used in Russian texts were a category of affluent peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and the early Soviet Union.

wealthy farmers

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Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin 

Founded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship. He led the October Revolution of 1917, in which the Communists seized power in Russia. He then ruled the country until his death in 1924.

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March on Rome

The March on Rome was a march by which Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party came to power in the Kingdom of Italy. 

tens of thousands of fascists swarmed towards Rome. Fearing civil war, king Victor Emmanuel III asked Mussolini to form a government as Prime Minister

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Nuremburg Laws

Under the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, Fritz would be classified as mixed-raced

in 1935, the Nazis passed these laws which deprived Jews of German citizenship and placed several restrictions on them, including: being prohibited from marrying non-Jews, attending or teaching at German schools, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine, or publishing books

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Proletariat

The proletariat  is a term for the class of wage-earners, in a capitalist society, 

Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production; the working class

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Ruhr Valley

The Ruhr, or the Ruhr district, Ruhr region, Ruhr area or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

in 1923, Germany fell behind in reparations payments so France occupied the coal- rich Ruhr valley

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Russification

Russification or Russianization is a form of cultural assimilation process during which non-Russian communities, voluntarily 

making a nationalities culture more Russian

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Socialist Realism

Socialist realism is a style of realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in that country as well as in other socialistcountries.

Stalin required artists and writers to conform to a style in which the goal was to boost socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light

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Soviets

Soviet people or Citizens of the USSR was an umbrella demonym for the population of the Soviet Union. Initially used as a nonspecific reference to the Soviet ...

councils of workers and soldiers

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Totalitarian state

otalitarianism is a political system in which the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life

Mussolini practiced the first form of government, a one party dictatorship that attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens

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Third Reich

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945 ... The period is also known under the names the Third Reich 

Hitler boasted that under his new empire the German master race would dominate Europe for a thousand years

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