Adolf Hitler

Politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party named Adolf Hitler.

Atheism

Atheism was a belief that many people still believe in today.

Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini created the Fascist Party and organized the March of Rome.

Black Shirts

Black Shirts was a party who favored violent actions and rejected democratic process.

Bolsheviks

Bolsheviks was a revolutionary party who seized Russian power in 1917.

Chancellor

Chancellor, which helped to draft a constitution.

Cheka

Cheka was a secret police formed by Lenin.

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

Many peseants were sent to collectives by Stalin. 

Comintern

Founder that helped to the Comintern was communism Karl Max.

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

System named Command Economy where government officials made all basic economic decisions.

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

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Fascism

Fascism makes an individual less of who they are.

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

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Führer

Fuhrer was a name granted to Hitler, but was known more than that.

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.

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Gestapo

Gestapo helped to catch German enemies.

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

People who criticized Stalin most likely got sent to a Gulag.

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 contributed political thought processes to many, especially influencing Vladimir Lenin.

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

Joseph Stalin was a leader who became head of the Communist Party, whose name stood for "man of steel."

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

Kulaks was another name for farmers who were wealthy.

wealthy farmers

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Lenin

Lenin was the founder of the Communist Party who ruled Russia.

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

March on Rome caused king Victor Emmanuel III to step down from the throne because of fear.

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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Nuremburg Laws

Nuremburg Laws were laws passed by the Nazis depriving Jews of having German citizenship and placing additional restrictions on them.

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 were not able to do much, but work since they were known as the "working class."

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

Ruhr Valley helped in giving out many natural resources.

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

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Russification

Russification made nationalities culture more Russian.

making a nationalities culture more Russian

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Socialist Realism

Similar like propaganda to advertise and promote Soviet Life which was Socialist Realism.

Soviets

Soviets was another name for councils of workers and soldiers.

councils of workers and soldiers

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Totalitarian state

One party dictatorship where they attempted to regulate each aspect of the citizens lives was known as Totalitarian state.

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

Third Reich was used to gain supporters for the cause of a better Germany.

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

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