AC Theme 1 Ch 2 Totalitarianism

fascism

nationalism, dictatorships, control, classism, terror

communism

no private entities, control, worldwide spread, no classifications

rise of nazi germany

outlaw of political parties, ultranationalism, propaganda, boycott of jewish stores, riots, book burnings, jews fired

rise of soviet union

great purge, communism, propaganda, sec forces, gap between wealthy and poor, strikes, bolsheviks take over, secret police

failure of weimar republic (econ crisis germany)

political movements against, ww1 econ devastation, unemployment hunger and poverty, division of govt

nationalist socialist party promised… (econ crisis germany)

put ppl to work, unite germans, create strong gov, regain lost territories

econ crisis ussr

econ plans, culture highly restricted (lib arts), agriculture and industry forced centralization

nazi ideology

nazifies the church, jewish race biggest threat, eugenics

nazi methods of control

state of emergency (no rights of press speech assembly), censorship and propaganda, nuremburg laws, hitler youth, nazi govs appointed

nazi violence

1000s become SAs, SS (schutzstaffel) elite troopers, gestapo (non uniformed police)

nazi support and opposition

dachau CC for political opps

soviet ideology

abolition of priv ownership, 5 years plans, industrial power

soviet control

secret police, economy under state control, prop and censorship

soviet violence

gulags, great purges

hyperinflation in germany

loaf of bread 4.2 to 4.2 b in 4 years, savings wiped out, unemployment skyrockets (0.75m to 6m), leads to radical ideology

lebensraum

territorial expansion for the German people (claiming they needed more living space)

nazi racism

aryans culture creating, middles culture maintaining, jews and untermenschen culture destroying, accuses jews of killing off the pure german race

stormtroopers

sa- sturm abteilung, military parades, organized and disciplined

mass demonstrations

organized to create feeling of political support

propaganda

simple slogans that catch attention and convince

reichstag fire

arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin in 1933, allegedly nazis, long run doesnt matter

night of long knives

1934, purge of hitlers political opps, led by SA

nuremburg laws

german blood to be citizen, jews lose citizenship, cannot acquire visa to leave germany

hitler youth

appeal the nazis to children, integrated into SA groups, promoted aryanism

kristallnacht

nov 9-10, 1938, 30k jewish men taken to ccs, 1 mass arrest, 1 billion reichmark atonement tax ordered

reign of terror and great purges

1000s deported to gulag, secret police, purges in gov industry military culture, ½ of officers arrested or executed, by 38 millions arrested executed or exiled

collectivisation

1st 5 year plan (industrialization, trade unions converted into uses for productivity, shortages of cosumer goods and inflation), 2nd 5 year plan (attention on consumer goods), 3rd 5 year plan (shift to armament production)

mobilization of society

order and discipline, arts and literature under control, sciences had to be marxist, education, religion persecuted

ukrainian famine

holodomor, 32-33, 3.5-7m deaths, starvation of population (took their grain), 4k rebellions, decimation of population, destruction of ukr orthodox churches