Pre WW2 /Dictators
What was government organized violence against Jewish people in Russia known as
Pogroms
Who were the Bolsheviks
A Marxist revolutionary group in RUSSIA
Who formed the Bolshevik party
V.I Lenin
What is a totalitarian state
A state in which the government controls aspects of private and public life
What is a Command Economy
When the government plans and execute all economic decisions
What was the five year plan?
A plan for rapid industrialization of Russia
Why did Stalin get rid of the Kulaks
They would not give up their farms ( Collective Farming)
Who did Stalin target in his great purge
Anyone who opposed him
What was lebensraum
Hitlers plan for expanding Germany
What was Fascism?
A dictatorship that emphasized Patriotism and Nationalism
What was the dominate political party of Hitler's germany
Nazism
Which country invaded Manchuria / Why was it invaded
Japan
Who made up the Axis Powers
Japan, Germany, Italy
What event caused the Germans to take Hitler seriously
The poor german economy
What was Appeasement
Giving into aggression to keep peace
What area was remilitarized that was not supposed to be?
Rhineland
Sudetenland was gained by Germany at which conference?
Munich
Hitler desired to unite all German speakers into his ___________
Reich
A government in which the people control the government
Marxism
What was the name of the government Italy embraced
Fascism
Councils of peasants , and workers in soviet Russia were known as
Soviets
Last country to be invaded prior to WW2
Poland
Italy invaded this country
Ethiopia
First country Germany invaded after ww2
Austria
What happened when Germany invaded the Rhineland
Nothing