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Ch. 14 & 15 Totalitarianism
CHS 9 Vinton
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9th Grade
02/07/2013

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Why was there political discontent in Russia?
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After WWI, there wasn't a strong government yet. People were losing jobs and becoming poor. They didn't like the terms of the treaty of Versailles.
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What are pogroms?
Definition
organized violence against Jews
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What are soviets?
Definition
local worker councils
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Who was Kerensky?
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leader of the Provisional Government 
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What kind of government did the Duma want?
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a constitutional monarchy  
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What is totalitarianism?
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a kind of government with one party rule and no civil rights
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Who was Stalin?
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leader of the Great Purge
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Who was Nicholas II?
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the last Russian czar
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What were the Five Year Plans?  
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the goal was economic development.
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What was Bloody Sunday?
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an event similar to the Amritsar massacre
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Who was Trotsky?
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This leader might have been expected to be the second leader of the Soviet state...
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What was the Dawes Plan?
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a plan to strengthen the German economy
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What’s a coalition government?
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governance by temporary alliances
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What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
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pledge to “renounce war as an instrument of national policy”
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what was the name of Germany’s new democratic government?
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The Weimar Republic
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Who was the “lost generation”?
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the disillusioned writers and artists after World War I
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What was My Struggle?
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the name of Hitler’s book in English
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What was Nazism?
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the German form of fascism
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What was Kristallnacht?
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German attack on Jews on November 9, 1938
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Who was Peron?
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This Latin American leader patterned his military dictatorship on that of European fascism.
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What was Czechoslovakia?
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This eastern European country was still a democracy in 1935.
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What was Manchuria?
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country invaded by Japan in 1931
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Who was Franco?
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leader of the Spanish fascist troops
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What was Austria?
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the nation where Hitler first sent the German army
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what was the Axis Powers?
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the alliance among Italy, Japan, and Germany
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What was the Soviet Union?
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This country actively supported the elected government of Spain.
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Who was Lenin?
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his slogan was “peace, land,bread.”
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Which group was not persecuted by Stalin?
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atheists
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What was the non-aggression pact?
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a pact between Germany and the Soviet Union
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What was the Munich Conference?
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a 1938 meeting was held to address German aggression
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What is appeasement?
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a policy to “give in” in order to keep the peace
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What is “Guernica”?
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a painting by Picasso to show the horrors of war and of Fascist aggression
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