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Russian revolution and totalitarian dictatorship
Phelps
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History
10th Grade
04/25/2017

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1.Adolf Hitler

 

Adolf Hitler was insane just like Donald Trump

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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 [image]
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2. Atheism

 

Atheism is more like just beleiveing in science

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the belief that there is no god [image]
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3.Benito Mussolini

 

Benito Mussolini was violent like Donald Trump and Kim Jung Un

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He organized veterans and other discontented Italians into Fascist Party; "il Duce": the boss [image]
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4.Black Shirts

 

Black shirts were bad people like republicans

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party militants and supporters of Mussolini who rejected the democratic process in favor of violent actions [image]
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5.Bolsheviks

 

Bolsheviks were like prom parties

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A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917. [image]
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6.Chancellor

 

Chancellor was like a person leading in todays world

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 [image]
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7.Cheka

 

Cheka was like the fbi or dea of todays world

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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 [image]
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8.Collectives

 

Collectives were like todays farmers

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Stalin wanted all peasants to farm on state-owned farms, or large farms owned by peasants as a group [image]
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9.Comintern

 

Comintern a communist group mostly

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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. [image]
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10.Command Economy

 

Command economy absolute power from the government

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the Soviet Union developed a system in which the government officials made all basic economic decisions [image]
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11.Fascism

 

Fascism was like todays society

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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 [image]
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12.Führer

 

Fuhrer nickname for hitler like bald head for Donald Trump

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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. [image]
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13.Gestapo

 

Gestapo was like el chapo

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German acronym for the German Secret State Police, part of the SS notorious for terrorism against enemies of the state. [image]
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14.Gulag

 

Gulag is like someone criticising Donald Trump

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grumblers, or critics of Stalin, were rounded up and sent to a system of brutal labor camps [image]
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15.Karl Marx

 

Karl Max was first to replace communism

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Often recognized as the "father of communism"; believed that communism would replace capitalism, believed in a classless society. (1818-1883) [image]
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16.Joseph Stalin

 

Joseph Stalin was basically a dictator

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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) [image]
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17.Kulaks

 

Kulaks were rich people working on farms like our immigrants that come to work hard and make some money

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wealthy farmers [image]
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18.Lenin

 

Lenin was partially a dictator

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. [image]
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19.March on Rome

 

March of rome was like the pride festival full of people

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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 [image]
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20.Nuremburg Laws

 

Nuremburg Laws Were like the ten ammendements

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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 [image]
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21.Proletariat

 

Proletariat hard the part in which people actually work

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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 [image]
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22.Ruhr Valley

 

Ruhr valley was like a resource

Definition
in 1923, Germany fell behind in reparations payments so France occupied the coal- rich Ruhr valley [image]
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23.Russification

 

Turning something more russian russification

Definition
making a nationalities culture more Russian [image]
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24.Socialist Realism

 

Socialist Realism a different type of life style

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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 [image]
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25.Soviets

 

Soviets work for a purpose

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councils of workers and soldiers [image]
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26.Totalitarian state

 

Totalitarian state absolute ruling

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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 [image]
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27.Third Reich

 

Third Reich absolute power as well

Definition
Hitler boasted that under his new empire the German master race would dominate Europe for a thousand years [image]
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