Traits of Totalitarianism
Propaganda, Censorship, or Terror?
Key Terms
Germany
Russia
100

This is the set of goals of the state; it glorifies the aims of the state; it justifies government action.

What is ideology?

100

Biased information to sway people to accept certain beliefs or action.

What is propaganda?

100

A government that takes total, centralized state control over every aspect of public and private life.

What is totalitarianism?

100

This was the race Hitler hated the most.

Who are the Jews?

100

He was the last Czar in Russia.

Who is Nicholas II?

200

Police terror, indoctrination, censorship, persecution.

What are Methods of Enforcement?

200

Uses brutal force and even murder to achieve their goals

What is Police Terror?

200

Large, government-owned farms where hundreds of families were forced to work.

What are collective farms?

200

This is his role in World War 1

What is a soldier?

200

He started the Bolshevik party.

Who is Lenin?

300

Demands of loyalty, denies basic liberty, expects personal sacrifice for the good of the state.

What is State Control of Individuals?

300

Control over newspapers, motion pictures, radios, and other sources of information, does not tolerate individual creativity and glorifies the achievements of Communism, Stalin, and his economic programs.

What is Russian propaganda and censorship?

300

The campaign that Stalin launched to eliminate anyone that threatened his power; opponents were put on trial or sent to labor camps.

What is the Great Purge?

300

German state from the end of WWI (1918) to the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor (1933).

What is the Weimar Republic?

300

The number of people that Stalin killed in the Great Purge.

What is 20 million?

400

Exercises absolute authority, dominates the government

What is Dictatorship/One-Party Rule?

400

Instruction in the government's belief to mold people's minds.

What is indoctrination?

400

Origins are from Karl Marx.

What is Socialism and Communism?

400

Agreement in 1924 where American loaned money to Weimar Germany so they could pay off their reparations. 

What is the Dawes Plan?

400

A system in which the government made all economic decisions.

What is command economy?

500

This person unites people, symbolizes government, encourages popular support through force of will.

What is a Dynamic Leader?

500

Biased mass media spread all around a nation.

What is propaganda?

500

Supported by the middle and upper class. (hint: government structure)

What are Fascists?

500

This is the annexation of Austria and the union between Austria and Germany.

What is Anschluss?

500

This country also fell under the influence of Karl Marx's theories and communist beliefs.

What is China?

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