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| 153691820 | Stalin's First Five-Year Plan | Communist party created industries and cities from scratch and trained peasants to work in factories, mines, and offices. Industrialization hastened environmental changes. | 0 | |
| 153691821 | Kulaks | better-off peasants resisting collectivization. Destroyed their crops, buildings, and animals rather than give them to the govt. Stalin ordered their "liquidation of a class", millions were arrested, executed, or starved. | 1 | |
| 153691822 | NVKD | Stalin's secret police force in the 1930s. created climate of suspicion and fear to prevent rebellion. | 2 | |
| 153691823 | Nazis | German political party led by Adolf Hitler, emphasizing nationalism, racism, and war. When Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazis became the only legal party and an instrument of Hitler's absolute rule. The party's formal name was National Socialist German Workers' Party. | 3 | |
| 153691824 | Stalinist terror | high govt. demands, arresting people, sent to gulags. | 4 | |
| 153691825 | Purges | Stalin accused most of Lenin's associates of treason. executed eight top generals and many lower officials. Kirov (party boss of Leningrad) was assassinated. | 5 | |
| 153691826 | Alexandra Kollontai | Bolshevik spokeswoman for women's rights. Advocated liberation of women, communal housework, divorce on demand, equality in love/marriage, communal childrearing. | 6 | |
| 153691827 | Stock market crash of 1929 | stocks lost half their value in days, ruined investors, bank withdrawals caused banks to collapse. | 7 | |
| 153691828 | Smoot-Hawley Tariff | 1930's imort duties so high, cost import goods increased 70% - other countries did it too -basically stopped international trade | 8 | |
| 153691829 | New Deal | government programs to stimulated and revitalize the economy, introduced by Franklin D. Roosevelt. US remained democratic. | 9 | |
| 153691830 | Fasci di combattimento | fighting units of unemployed veterans and violent youths, demanded action and intimidated politicians. | 10 | |
| 153691831 | Benito Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy. Led Italy to conquer Ethiopia, joined Germany in Axis pact and WWII alliance. Overthrown in 1943 by Allied invasion. | 11 | |
| 153691832 | il duce is always right | most famous slogan of Fascist Italy. | 12 | |
| 153691833 | Mein Kampf | book written by Hitler during a jail sentence in which he outlined his beliefs and goals about the Aryan "master race" and subjugation of all others. | 13 |
