Question 1

Define Totalitarian state

Accepted Answer

a government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens' lives

Question 2

What was Stalin's personal goal?

Accepted Answer

To have total power and to maintain it

Question 3

What political party did Stalin fall under?

Accepted Answer

Marxism

Question 4

Who did Stalin want to get rid of?

Accepted Answer

Ukrainians and Kulaks

Question 5

Generally speaking, how did Stalin's policies change the USSR?

Accepted Answer

1. Five Year Plan
2. Collectivization of Agriculture
3. The Great Famine

Question 6

Generally speaking, how was Stalin able to create a totalitarian government?

Accepted Answer

1. The Great Purge
2. NKVD
3. Propaganda

Question 7

What was the Third Reich?

Accepted Answer

third German empire that would dominate Europe for 1000 years

Question 8

What was the Gestapo?

Accepted Answer

the Nazi secret police that rooted out all opposition

Question 9

What were the Nuremberg Laws?

Accepted Answer

laws that deprived Jews of German citizenship and seriously restricted them

Question 10

Who was Benito Mussolini?

Accepted Answer

he formed the Fascist party and eventually became the dictator of Italy

Question 11

Who were the Blackshirts?

Accepted Answer

supporters of fascism and party militants who rejected the democratic process in favor of violent action

Question 12

What happened during the March on Rome?

Accepted Answer

thousands of fascists marched on the Italian government to intimidate the King and gain the position of Prime Minister for Mussolini

Question 13

Define Fascism

Accepted Answer

any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights

Question 14

Define command economy

Accepted Answer

economy in which government officials made all basic economic decisions

Question 15

Define Gulag

Accepted Answer

a system of brutal labor camps

Question 16

Define Comintern

Accepted Answer

established under Lenin to encourage world wide revolution

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