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Russian Revolution& Tolitarian Dictators
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11th Grade
04/25/2017

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#1

 

Adolf Hitler


Adolf Hitler killed many of children,Parents and elderly.

Definition

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 belief. 

Definition

the belief that there is no god.

 

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Benito Mussolini


Benito Mussolini was a prime minister.

Definition

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


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Black Shirts


Black Shirts are violent militants. 

Definition

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

 

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Bolsheviks


Bolsheviks were Democrats.

Definition

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

 

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Chancellor


The Chancellor of the country is head of the government of the country.

Definition

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 an orginized police.

Definition

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

 

Collectives resulted in farmers sharing farms/crops.

Definition

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

 

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Cominterm


Cominterm supported world communism.

Definition

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


Command Economy resuts in the government making all economic decisions.

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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 was a social organization.

Definition

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 a tyrant.

Definition

 

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


Gestapo is the Acronym for the secret police.

Definition

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 



Gulags were brutal labor camps. 

Definition

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 believed in a classless society 

Definition

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 Stalin created a tolitarian state.

Definition

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


Kulaks were the farmers who struck it big. 

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wealthy farmers.


 

 

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Lenin



Lenin was a Russian Communist.

Definition

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 helped Mussolini greatly.

Definition

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


Naziz deprieved jews of their German citizenship after the Nuremburg laws were passed.

Definition

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 working class are the Proletariats.

Definition

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 rich Ruhr Valley was occupied by France.

Definition

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


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Russification


Russification results when adding Russian culture to other nationalities. 

Definition

making a nationalities culture more Russian.

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Socialist Realism


Socialist Realism is a style of art.


Definition

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 councils of workers and soldiers. 

Definition
Councils of workers and soldiers


 

 

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Totalitarian state


Totalitarian state is a dictatorship. 

Definition

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 was germany during the Nazi regime. 

Definition

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

 

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