Hist: T1-C2

Totalitarianism:

government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state

Police state:

totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens' activities.

Single Party State:

one political party holds the exclusive right to govern, effectively outlawing or suppressing all opposition parties

Aryanism:

ideology of racial supremacy which views the supposed Aryan race as a distinct and superior racial group entitled to rule the rest of humanity

Volksgemeinschaft:

“people’s community”, a racially unified and hierarchically organized body in which the interests of individuals would be strictly subordinate to those of the nation

Lebensraum:

“living space” that a state believes is needed for natural development, concept of superiority driving German expansion

Communism:

spread of beliefs worldwide, no social classes, no private property, distribution of goods and services

Collectivization:

policy of transferring the ownership of private farmland to the state

Cult of Personality:

creation of an idealized and heroic image of a leader by a government (through unquestioning flattery and praise)

Kulaks:

wealthier peasant class that emerged in USSR who had capitalist tendencies

Great Purge:

USSR period of mass political repression via widespread purges in all sectors of society (gov, industry, military, cultural)

Gestapo:

non-uniformed police using ruthless and cruel methods on opponents of regime

NKVD:

secret police that terrorized population with threats and accusations

Mass demonstrations to showcase Nazi power

1923-1933

Stalin “revolution from above”

1927

1st “5 year plan”

1928

ukrainian famine

1932-1933 (holodomor)

2nd “5 year plan”

1933

sterilization law

1933

dachau opening

1933

hitler chancellor

january 30 1933

reichstag fire

february 1933

enabling act

march 1933

student raid libraries + book burnings of “ungerman lit”

may 1933

night of long knives

june-july 1934

hitler declared “führer”

august 1934

nuremberg laws

1935

new soviet constitution

1936

great purge dates

1936-1938

3rd “5 year plan”

1938

T4 program

1938

kristallnacht

november 9-10 1938

how many officer corps were put in jail

1/2

how many Ukrainian rebellions

4000

holodomor death count?

6-7 mi

1933, how many unemployed in germany

6 mi (1/3 pop)

how many jewish ppl were rounded up during Kristallnacht

30K

how many storm troopers

10K