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Russian Revolution & Totalitarian Vocab Cards
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History
10th Grade
04/21/2017

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1. Adolf Hitler was a dictator of the Nazi Germany.
Definition

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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2. Atheism was very common when hitler was around.
Definition

the belief that there is no god

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3. Benito Mussolini was the main guy to organize veterans.
Definition
He organized veterans and other discontented Italians
into Fascist Party; "il Duce": the boss

 
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4. Black Shirts were a party of militants that denied the democratic process.
Definition
party militants and supporters of Mussolini who
rejected the democratic process in favor of violent
actions

 
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5. Bolsheviiks was a party led by Vladimir Lenin.
Definition
A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir
Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917.
 
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6. Chancellor is a prime minister that created the wiemar republic.
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

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7. Cheka was the secret police that was created by Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
Definition
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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8. Collectives were peasents that farmed.
Definition
Stalin wanted all peasants to farm on state-owned
farms, or large farms owned by peasants as a group
 
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9. Comintern was something that was created by lenin to spread a revolution of the preaching of communist principles.
Definition
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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10. Command Economy was something that was created to make economic decisions.
Definition
the Soviet Union developed a system in which the
government officials made all basic economic
decisions

 
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11. Fascism was somethng that was very violet during these times.
Definition
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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12. Fuhrer was given his name by hitler. He was consitired a leader.
Definition
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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13. Gestapo was a group would prevent terrorism against enemies of the state.
Definition
German acronym for the German Secret State Police,
part of the SS notorious for terrorism against enemies
of the state.

 
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14. Gulag were people that were sent to do hard work.
Definition
grumblers, or critics of Stalin, were rounded up and
sent to a system of brutal labor camps.

 
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15. Karl Marx was a man who believed that communism would replace capitalism.
Definition
Often recognized as the "father of communism";
believed that communism would replace capitalism,
believed in a classless society. (1818-1883)

 
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16. Joseph Stalin was a man who made Lenin be the head of the communist party.
Definition
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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17. Kulaks were farmers who led strikes.
Definition
wealthy farmers

 
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18. Lenin was a man who created the october revolution.
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.
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19. March on Rome was a day that many people were going to Rome.
Definition
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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20. Nuremburg Laws were very strict laws that were created by the Nazis.
Definition
in 1935, the Nazis passed these laws which deprived
Jews of German citizenship and placed several restrict
ions 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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21. Proletariat was something that Marx's said for the workers.
Definition
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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22. Ruhr Valley is where Germany fell behind their payments.
Definition
in 1923, Germany fell behind in reparations payments
so France occupied the coal- rich Ruhr valley


 
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23. Russification was used to make culture more Russian type.
Definition
making a nationalities culture more Russian

 
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24. Socialist Realism was something that Stalin made artists and writers to make a goal.
Definition
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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25. Soviets were workers and soilders.
Definition
councils of workers and soldiers

 
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26. Totalitarian State was a form of government created for the aspects of citizens lives.
Definition
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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27. Third Reich was something that Hitler created to dominate Europe for many years.
Definition

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

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