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TotalitarianGovTest
The rise of Totalitarian Governments
Question | Answer |
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Comintern | Encouraged world-wide communist revolution |
Gestapo | Nazi secret police or Brown shirts |
Totalitarian state | Is a one-party dictatorship that tries to regulate all aspects of its citizens' lives |
Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass" |
Black Shirts | Were militant supporters of Benito Mussolini |
Flappers | Were liberated young women of the Jazz Age |
Gulag | A system of over 90 brutal Russian labor camps |
Harlem Renaissance | An African American cultural awakening in New York |
Prohibition | U.S. ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist leader |
Third Reich | Hitler new government he believed would rule Europe for a thousand years |
Th country that emerged form World War I in the best financial shape was | United States. |
In what ways did Fascists differ form Communists? | Communists wanted to spread communism internationally, Fascists wanted to strengthen their own nation. |
How did Hitler come to power? | It was transferred to him when Hindenburg died. |
Speakeasies | an illicit liquor store or nightclub. |
Great Depression | a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s |
March on Rome | an organized mass demonstration which resulted in Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party ascending to power Italy |
Fascism | a form of government where a dictatorial power, forcibly suppressed opposition, and controles society and of the economy |
Communism | A classless society where the government controls all aspects of peoples lives |
Oligarchy | Oligarchy is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. |
Collective | a policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms |
Stalin | Russian Communist Leader |
Adolf Hitler | German fascist leader |
How many people died because of famine under Stalin? | 6 to 8 million |