Unit+VII+Assignments

1. What kind of regimes did Russia, Italy, and Germany turn to by 1939? Totalitarianism 2. List three characteristics of a Totalitarian government. Dictator, secret police, propaganda 3. Where was Benito Mussolini from and what kind of government was he the first to lead in Europe? Italy, Fascism 4. What were Mussolini's bands of enforcers called? black shirts 5. What was the name of Mussolin's secret police? OVRA 6. Why was fascism attractive to many people? economic security, appealing to the people's nationalism 7. How was Mussolini's rule different from Hitler's? Mussolini didn't have the power like Hitler had. 8. What was Vladimir Lenin's policy starting in March 1921? Explain how it worked. NEP, mixture of communism and capitalism. 9. When did Russia become the USSR? 1922 10. Define POLITBURO. committee that made the communism party policy. 11. Who was Joseph Stalin's main competition in taking over for Vladimir Lenin? Leon Trotsky 12. What happened to Trotsky after Stalin took power? Trotsky fled to Mexico and they killed him. 13. What were the negative consequences of the five year plan? Famine and Death 14. What was the Great Purge? Stalin's plan to kill all his "enemies" 15. Who was Francisco Franco and what kind of government did he head? Fascist leader of Spain

= Assignment 7.4- Stalin Video. =

Answer these questions as we watch the Biography of Stalin.

1. How many people died at the hands of Stalin? 20 Mil

2. What does Stalin mean? Man of Steel

3. When did the Czar abdicate the thrown? 1917

4. Who fought in the Russian Civil war? Whites and the Bolsheviks

5. What did Marx say about religion and what did the Bolsheviks do to enforce that way of thinking? Something to make you feel better. Mock the churches.

6. What did Stalin do to Trotsky? Commander of the Bolsheviks.

7. What is collectivization and how was it carried out? Collecting all private property.

8. What was the price of stealing a head of corn? 10 years hard labor.

9. Since workers could not reach the unrealistic goal of the 5 year plans and quotas, what did they do? Lied about how much they paid.

10. What is a gulag? Labor camp in Siberia.

11. What was his response to the question, "How long are you going to go on killing people?" As long as necessary.

12. What were some of the accusations that caused people to be put on trial and killed. Espionage, traitorship

13. What happened to his wife? She either committed suicide or was murdered.

14. Who stabbed him in the back by breaking a non-aggression pact before WW2? Hitler

15. What did the Soviets do to countries that liberated from the Germans? Made them stay a part of the USSR

16. What was the Iron Curtain? Starts by a speech by Winston Churchhill.

17. What did he do when his doctor told him to lay off politics for a while? He arrested him.

18. Why would people cry when such a horrible person died? They really depended on Joseph Stalin.

1. Although he was an Austrian, what was one of the cornerstones of Hitler's philosophy?

2. How did Hitler feel about Jews?

3. What was Nazi short for?

4. What were the two names given to Nazi militia?

5. What happened to Hitler because of the Beer Hall Putsch?

6. What did Hitler write in Prison?

7. What kind of conditions led to the Nazi rise in power and why was Hitler so persuasive to the German people?

8. What was the Enabling Act and how did it help Hitler become an all powerful dictator? Gave all power to congress

9. How did Hitler view the Aryan race and how was the term misused by the Nazis?

10. Looking at the chart of dictators, who would you say was highly influential to Hitler? Mussolini

11. What were some of the ways that all three men in the chart controlled the people? Secret Police, Propaganda, Fear, Execution

12. Who were the SS and what two principles were they based on? Personal Guard. Terror and ideology.

13. What were the Nuremberg laws? Excluded Jews from citizens.

14. What happened during Kristallnacht? Burned synagogue of Jews.