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| 9598957882 | Totalitarianism | Radical dictatorship that takes control of the economic, social, intellectual, and cultural aspects of society and takes away the beliefs and behavior of its citizens |  | 0 |
| 9598957883 | Fascism | Movement characterized by expansionist nationalism, antisoicalism, a violent leader, and a glorificaton of war and the military. |  | 1 |
| 9598957884 | Eugenics | Selective Breeding of humans to "improve the general characteristics of society" | 2 | |
| 9598957885 | Joseph Stalin | Dictator of the Soviet Union who installed a five year plan to turn the country into a communist society |  | 3 |
| 9598957886 | Five Year Plan | Stalin's plan to rapidly increase the production of agriculture and industrialization. The principle of collective farming was integrated and many people died of famine. |  | 4 |
| 9598957887 | Leon Trotsky | A contender in the struggle for power in the USSR after Lenin's death. He was beat out by Stalin. |  | 5 |
| 9598957888 | Socialism in one country | Stalin's argument that the Russian dominated USSR had the ability to build itself internally. | 6 | |
| 9598957889 | Collectivization | The consolidation of individual peasant farms into large state controlled enterprises. |  | 7 |
| 9598957890 | Kulaks | The better-off peasants who weren't allowed to join collective farms. Many of them starved or were sent to labor camps for "re-education" |  | 8 |
| 9598957891 | Man-made famine in Ukraine | Mass starvation in Ukraine due to collective farming. 3.5 million people died. | 9 | |
| 9598957892 | Stalinist Terror | Stalin started killing off some of his top executives. 16 "Old Bolsheviks" were caught conspiring against him and were executed. Many faithful union officials, managers, intellectuals, army officers, and ordinary citizens were accused of counter-revolutionary activities and 1-2 million people died. | 10 | |
| 9598957893 | Mussolini | A socialist party leader and radical newspaper editor who urged Italy to join the Allies and was expelled. He started a gang of "Black Shirts" and slowly took over Italy by causing havoc and rose to power. |  | 11 |
| 9598957894 | Black Shirts | Mussolini's private militia that helped drive socialism out of Italy. |  | 12 |
| 9598957895 | Lateran Agreement | a 1929 agreement that recognized the Vatican as a state with Mussolini agreeing to give the church heavy financial support in return for public support from the Pope. |  | 13 |
| 9598957896 | Nazism | A movement/political party that was driven by intense nationalism and racism, led by Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s. |  | 14 |
| 9598957897 | Enabling Act | enabled Hitler to get rid of the Reichstag parliament and pass laws without reference to parliament. |  | 15 |
| 9598957898 | SA purge | The SS arrested and executed about 100 SA leaders and other political enemies. | 16 | |
| 9598957899 | Heinrich Himmler | German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945) |  | 17 |
| 9598957900 | The SS | Hitler's elite security force that along with thousands of collaborators captured and executed millions during the war. |  | 18 |
| 9598957901 | Gestapo | German secret police |  | 19 |
| 9598957902 | Nuremberg Laws | 1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood. |  | 20 |
| 9598957903 | Kristallnacht | (Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews. |  | 21 |
| 9598957904 | Appeasement | A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war. Associated with Neville Chamberlain's policy of making concessions to Adolf Hitler. Even though Hitler was not seen as a large threat, the allies appeased him because no one was anxious to have another world war, they believed Hitler could reach peace after he gained some land, and did not think uniting all German speaking people was unreasonable. |  | 22 |
| 9598957905 | Rome-Berlin Axis | the alliance between Italy and Germany (Mussolini and Hitler) |  | 23 |
| 9598957906 | Spanish Civil War | In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans, Socialists, and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the government forces while Germany and Italy sent tanks, airplanes, and soldiers to help Franco. |  | 24 |
| 9598957907 | Francisco Franco | Fascist leader of the Spanish revolution, helped by Hitler and Mussolini |  | 25 |
| 9598957908 | Anshluss | Union of Austria and Germany | 26 | |
| 9598957909 | Lebensraum | Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people |  | 27 |
| 9598957910 | Sudetenland | an area in western Czechoslovakia that was coveted by Hitler |  | 28 |
| 9598957911 | Nazi-Soviet non-aggression Pact | Hitler and Joseph Stalin agreed not to attack each other but divided Poland for an easy win, but Germany didn't keep true to their word and attacked Stalin later |  | 29 |
| 9598957912 | Poland Invasion | September 1, 1939; invasion made a week after the creation of the Nazi-Soviet Pact; 2 days later WWII started |  | 30 |
| 9598957916 | Hitler's New Order | included having the Nazis rule and use resources, enslave conquered people, and exterminate "undesirable elements" (Jews, gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, disabled) |  | 31 |
| 9598957931 | New Economic Policy | Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control "the commanding heights" of the economy like major industry, while allowing ordinary citizens to operate business and property ownership as normal. Joseph Stalin ended this in 1928 and replaced it with greater state ownership, collectivization, and a series of Five-Year Plans. | 32 | |
| 9598957932 | Communism | A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. | 33 | |
| 9598957933 | Ghettos | Sections of towns and cities in which Jews were forced to live. |  | 34 |
