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Adolph Hitler
Adolph Hitler REALLY disliked Jewish people. |
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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
Atheism is the rejection of the belief in a deity/higher power. It is the opposite of theism. |
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the belief that there is no god
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini created the first Italian fascist party. He rose to power and became Italy's dictator. In 1945, the scum was killed. |
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He organized veterans and other discontented Italians into Fascist Party; "il Duce": the boss
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Black Shirts
"Black Shirts" was the name Mussolini's fascist group. These ignorant potatoes often resorted to violence and harmed many people. |
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party militants and supporters of Mussolini who rejected the democratic process in favor of violent actions
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Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks were Lenin's non-violent revolutionary party. |
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A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917.
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Chancellor
A chancellor is a government official. |
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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
The Cheka was the name given to Russia's violent secret police force. |
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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
The collectives were large farms in which multiple peasants worked together. |
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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 Comintern stands for "Comunist International" |
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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 in which prices, income, production, etc. are all controlled by the government. |
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the Soviet Union developed a system in which the government officials made all basic economic decisions
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Fascism
Fascism is almost dictatorial and involves complete submission to the state. |
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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 was Adolph Hitler's nickname. |
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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 supressed those who opposed the Nazis and sent Jews and others to concentration camps. |
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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
A gulag is a system of labor camps established during Stalin's rule. Many died in these camps. |
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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 revolutionary German socialist. Leaders in Russia, like Lenin followed in is ways. |
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Often recognized as the "father of communism"; believed that communism would replace capitalism, believed in a classless society. (1818-1883)
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Josef Stalin
The streets ran red with the blood of countless innocents under Josef Stalin's rule. He was like the Hitler of Russia, but worse. |
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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
The name, "Kulak" refers to rich farmers/peasants. |
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Lenin
Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. He as the leader of the Russian Communist party, the Bolsheviks. |
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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 led by Benito Mussolini on October 22, 1922. |
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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
Some principles of the Nuremburg Laws restricted German Jews from citizenship and having relationships with German people. |
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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
A Proletariat is a working class citizen. |
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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
Ruhr Valley was a source for a huge natural resource: COALLLL |
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in 1923, Germany fell behind in reparations payments so France occupied the coal- rich Ruhr valley
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Russification
Russification is like when America Americanises things, but more Russian. |
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making a nation's culture more russian
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Socialist Realism
Socialist Realism restricted what kind of music, art, films, etc. the public could be exposed to. People who made anything criicizing Stalin would be sent to the Gulag or killed. |
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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
Soviets are citizens of the Soviet Union. |
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Councils of workers and soldiers
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Totalitarian State
A totalitarian state restricts the rights of citizens. The goernment has complete control over them. |
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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
The Third Reich as also known as the era of the Nazis. |
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Hitler boasted that under his new empire the German master race would dominate Europe for a thousand years
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