Italian Fascism

Totalitarianism

a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

Black Shirts

paramilitary groups supporting fascism

March on Rome

a massive demonstration and political maneuvering by Benito Mussolini’s Fascist "Blackshirts" to seize power in Italy

Mein Kampf

Hiter’s book “My Struggles”

Enabling Act

a 1933 law in Germany that gave Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers, allowing him to pass laws without parliamentary approval

Nuremberg laws

Racial laws introduced in Nazi Germany (1935) that discriminated against Jews, stripping them of citizenship and basic rights.

War Communism

an economic and political system instituted by Vladimir Lenin from 1918 to 1921 in Soviet Russia

New Economic Policy (NEP)

reintroduced a measure of stability to the economy and allowed the Soviet people to recover from years of war, civil war, and governmental mismanagement

Collectivisation

the organization of all of a country's production and industry into government ownership and management

Kulaks

a wealthy peasant farmer who opposed collectivized agriculture

Holodomor

Ukrainian famine, was a massive man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.