Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler tried to get people to turn against jews.

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

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Atheism

A lot of people believe atheism is something everyone should believe in. 

the belief that there is no god

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Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini met an unpleasant death on July 25, 1943.

He organized veterans and other discontented Italians into Fascist Party; "il Duce": the boss

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Black Shirts

Black shirts were also called squadristi 

party militants and supporters of Mussolini who rejected the democratic process in favor of violent actions

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Bolsheviks

The girl wrote a novel called Bolsheviks.

A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917.

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Chancellor

In 1873 he was appointed vice-chancellor. 

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

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Cheka

Lenin set up a secret police force called the Cheka after its initials in Russian.

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

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Collectives

Stalin wanted collectives to be formed. 

Stalin wanted all peasants to farm on state-owned farms, or large farms owned by peasants as a group

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Comintern

The anti-communists had a hard time living with the Comintern.  

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.

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Command Economy

The command economy had complete power over everything.

the Soviet Union developed a system in which the government officials made all basic economic decisions

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Fascism

It reminded him too much of Fascism. 

centralized, authoritarian government that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over individual and are destructive to basic human rights

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Führer

He has pulled away from the Führer at the last minute because of a change in agenda.

the unique name granted by Hitler to himself, a german term meaning "leader" or "guide", Hitler modeled the title after Benito Mussolini's use of il Duce.

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Gestapo

Soldiers eventually got a hold of a Gestapo official who held a list of nazi men names. 

German acronym for the German Secret State Police, part of the SS notorious for terrorism against enemies of the state.

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Gulag

He got sent to a gulag for being 3 minutes late for work. 

grumblers, or critics of Stalin, were rounded up and sent to a system of brutal labor camps

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx thought communism was better than capitalism.

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

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Joseph Stalin

There is a biography of Joesph Stalin's life.

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)

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Kulaks

It must have been a good life if you were a Kulaks.

wealthy farmers 

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Lenin

Lenin, like everyone else, was a communist.

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.

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March on Rome

Thousands swarmed in the March on Rome. 

tens of thousands of fascists swarmed towards Rome. Fearing civil war, king Victor Emmanuel III asked Mussolini to form a government as Prime Minister

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Nuremberg Laws

Nuremberg Laws were only passed my nazis. 

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

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Proletariat

Proletariat workers worked constantly 

Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production; the working class

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Ruhr Valley

The Ruhr Valley helped German pay France for the war.

in 1923, Germany fell behind in reparations payments so France occupied the coal- rich Ruhr valley

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Russification

I wonder if Russians could use russification to make everyone like them. 

making a nationalities culture more Russian

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Socialist Realism

Socialist Realism allowed others to see only the positive parts of the soviet life. 

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

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Soviets

Soviets were a big part of the soviet union.

councils of workers and soldiers

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Totalitarian state

Mussolini made a totalitarian state to take over the lives of others. 

Mussolini practiced the first form of government, a one-party dictatorship that attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens

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Third Reich

The third reich symbol has a swastika which use to mean "well-balance" or "good fortune" 

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

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