Russian Revolution
Under Stalin
Interwar Period
Rise of Hitler
Fascism
100
This political party advocated for a second revolution in Russia, led by an elite group who would be in charge of making Russia communist.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
100
This was the name of Stalin's program to industrialize Russia. It had the effect of modernizing Russian industry at the expense of millions of lives.
What is the Five Year Plan?
100
This is the term used for when the value of money depreciates and the value of goods skyrockets at extreme speed. This is the country in which it was most prevalent.
What is Hyper Inflation? What is Germany?
100
This was the name of the Democratic government that presided over Germany from 1919-1933.
What is the Weimar Republic?
100
Fascism thinks this political model is inadequate because: "It is not a system without a king, rather a system with many kings..." which can end up MORE tyrannical than the former.
What is Democracy?
200
This political leader lead the Russian communists through their revolution and subsequent civil war.
Who is Vladimir Lenin
200
This were Stalin's plans to rid his country of political dissent. He sent quotas to his secret police, that they must arrest and execute a required number of people annually.
What are Stalin's Purges?
200
This was the name of the economic recession felt by Europe and the United States following the stock market crash of 1929. It was characterized by massive unemployment and a reduction in GDP.
What is the Global Depression? Or what is the Great Depression?
200
This was a part of the German constitution that allowed the President to override the democratic process in times of emergencies.
What is Article 48?
200
This man founded the Fascist movement.
Who is Benito Mussolini
300
This was the name given to the capitalist/Anti-Bolshevik army that fought in Russia's civil war
What is the White Army. (the Bolsheviks were known as the Red Army)
300
This was Stalin's plan to eliminate private property in agriculture. Farmers were expected to give up their property to the state and communally farm the state's land with other farmers.
What is collectivization?
300
This political party received lots of support in every European country due to the economic conditions of the Interwar Period.
What is the communist party?
300
2 part: This was Hitler's failed attempt at Fascist revolution in the early 1920's. He was consequently arrested, where he spent much of his time writing this book.
What is the Beer Hall Putsch and Mein Kampf?
300
This was the name given to the Fascist para-military force in Italy that used violence to achieve political goals.
What is The Black Shirts?
400
This was the name given to the Russian political group who wanted a slow transition to communism. Their initial policies were to industrialize Russia and remain in WWI.
Who are the Mensheviks?
400
This is the name given to the class of wealthy, land-owning peasants. Stalin "liquidated" them and redistributed their land to the poorer peasants.
Who are the Kulaks?
400
This was the program in which the United States curtailed inflation in Europe by giving Germany loans to continue paying their reparations.
What is the Dawes Plan?
400
2 part: These two parts of Hitler's ideology prayed on German's humiliation of losing WWI. Through these two ideas, he made Germans feel as if they didn't lose the war because he blamed it on 1)The betrayal of Jews 2) The betrayal of politicians in signing the Treaty of Versailles.
What are the "Stab in the Back" and the "November Criminals"?
400
This political model is said to be the exact opposite of Fascism.
What is communism?
500
This was the name of the secret police created during Russia's civil war. It remained once the Red Army prevailed, and was responsible for arresting and punishing those who went against those in power.
What is the CHEKA
500
This was the political leader Stalin ousted from Russia, and allegedly had assassinated with an ice pick. In Mexico. By a Gardener. I'm laughing right now but it's very sad and Stalin was a bad bad man.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
500
This was the economic idea that you could fix an ailing economy by pumping money into it by means of national works projects that would employ the unemployed.
What is Keynesian Economics?
500
Hitler showed his militaristic vision of the future of Germany at these events. Displaying his appreciation for different groups of the German state, like construction workers, the Hitler Youth, Farmers, etc., Hitler also made each German feel important, no matter what their profession or status in society.
What is a Nuremberg Rally?
500
This was the political event/display involving thousands of uniformed fascists that helped Fascism take control in Italy.
What is "The March on Rome"?
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