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| 1.) Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler killed many people in his life. |
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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 was believed in many communist countries. |
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| the belief that there is no god [image] |
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| 3.) Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini created a party with discontented veterans. |
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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 The Black Shirts wanted to solve problems using violence. |
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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 The Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian Monarchy. |
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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 The Chancellor was a new position in the government. |
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| 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 The Cheka helped Lenin rise to power. |
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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 used to produce more food for the government. |
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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 The Comintern aimed to spread communism all over Europe. |
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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 The Command Economy controlled the country's economy |
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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 a belief the idea of state over individual is destructive to human rights. |
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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 The name Fuhrer was inspired by Benito Mussolini. |
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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 The Gestapo were like the Cheka. |
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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.) Gulags Gulags were similar to Hitler's concentration camps. |
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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 Max Karl Max influenced many leaders with his beliefs. |
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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 Lenin did not like the idea of Stalin being the new leader. |
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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 kicked off their farms by Stalin. |
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| 18.) Lenin Lenin was exiled from Russia but brought back by Germany. |
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| 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 The March on Rome resulted in the creation of a new government. |
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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.) Nuremberg Laws Nuremberg Laws were used to restrict the human rights of Jews. |
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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 The Proletariat were worked to death by Stalin |
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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 France took Ruhr Valley as a payment for war reparations. |
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| in 1923, Germany fell behind in reparations payments so France occupied the coal- rich Ruhr valley [image] |
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| 23.) Russification Russification was a goal of Russia. |
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| making a nationalities culture more Russian [image] |
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| 24.) Socialist Realism Stalin wanted to put Soviet Lifestyle in a positive light using Socialist Realism |
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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 The Soviets were created by Lenin. |
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| councils of workers and soldiers [image] |
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| 26.) Totalitarian State Stalin practiced a totalitarian state also. |
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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 The Third Reich encouraged Germans to believe they were the master race. |
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| Hitler boasted that under his new empire the German master race would dominate Europe for a thousand years [image] |
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