Untitled Flashcards Set

Terms and People

Dynamic Leader

Ideology

State control of Individuals

Methods of Enforcement

Indoctrination

Persecution

Mass Communication

State control of Society

One-Party Rule

Police Terror

Stalin

Great Purge

Pravda

Communist Party

Atheism

Command economy

Five Year Plan

Kulak

Collective Farm

KGB

Mussolini

Fascism

Il Duce

Ovra

Hitler

Nazism

Mein Kampf

Lebensraum

Aryanism

Anti-Semitism

SS

Gestapo

Hitler Youth

Joseph Goebels

Manchuria

Ethiopia

Rearmament

Rhineland

Appeasement

Axis Powers

Spanish Civil War/Francisco Franco

Sudetenland/Munich conference

Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

Invasion of Poland

Key Questions

1.  Describe the different components of totalitarianism.

2. How did Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini gain totalitarian control of their countries?

3. Why did the Allies follow a policy of appeasement prior to WWII?

4. Describe the ten crises that led to WWII.

Alexander II

Nicholas II

Alexandria

Alexi

Romanov family

Social Revolutionaries

Bolsheviks

Mensheviks

Russo-Japanese War

Bloody Sunday

Tsar (Czar)

Cyrillic Alphabet

Orthodox Church

Rasputin

abdicate

Provisional Government

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Alexander Kerensky

“Bread, Land, and Peace”

Lenin

Trotsky

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Reds

Whites

Communism

Key Questions

1. Why were the Russian people upset with Alexander II even when he freed the serfs?

2. Why did Russia lose the Russo-Japanese War?

3. Why was Bloody Sunday a turning point in how people viewed Nicholas II?

4. Why did Russia do so poorly in WWI?

5. How did Rasputin influence the Russian Government?  How did this make the Tsarina appear?

6. What caused the Bread Riots?  How did this lead to the Tsar’s abdication?

7. Describe Kerensky’s biggest mistake.
   Why did the Germans send Lenin back to Russia?  How did he overthrow Kerensky?

8. Describe the Russian Civil war.  Why were Trotsky and the Bolsheviks successful?

9. How did Stalin take power from Lenin and Trotsky?