1. Adolf Hitler 

Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazis. 

Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. 

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2. Atheism 

For someone to be an athiest, they must not believe in God. 

the belief that there is no god

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3. Benito Mussolini 

Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician. 

He organized veterans and other discontented Italians into Fascist Party; "il Duce": the boss

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4. Black Shirts 

Black Shirts were the uniforms they wore. 

party militants and supporters of Mussolini who rejected the democratic process in favor of violent actions

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5. Bolsheviks 

The Bolsheviks were led by Vladimir Lenin. 

A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917

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6. Chancellor 

The Chancellor was drafted in 1919. 

in 1919, German leaders drafted a constitution in the city of Wiemar. It created the Wiemar Republic. The constitution set up a parliamentary system led by a Prime Minister; appointed by & reports to the President

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7. Cheka 

The Cheka was formed by Lenin. 

secret police, formed by Lenin and the Bolsheviks: made arrests, tortured and executed thousands, took hostages in areas that favored the Whites, ran concentration camps, executed thousands, including the former Tsar Nicolas II and his family

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8. Collectives 

Collectives are peasnats. 

Stalin wanted all peasants to farm on state-owned farms, or large farms owned by peasants as a group

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9. Comintern 

The Comintern was formed in 1919. 

Lenin formed the Communist International, an association of Communist parties founded in 1919 by Russian Bolshevik leader Lenin, to promote the spread of the revolution and the preaching of communist principles throughout Europe.

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10. Command Economy 

The Command Economy made all the economic decisions. 

the Soviet Union developed a system in which the government officials made all basic economic decisions

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11. Facism 

People who support facism are destructive to basic human rights. 

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

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12. Führer

The Führer name means "leader" or "guide". 

the unique name granted by Hitler to himself, german term meaning "leader" or "guide", Hitler modeled the title after Benito Mussolini's use of il Duce.

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13. Gestapo 

Gestapo was a part of the SS. 

German acronym for the German Secret State Police, part of the SS notorious for terrorism against enemies of the state

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14. Gulag 

Gulags were sent to labor camps.

grumblers, or critics of Stalin, were rounded up and sent to a system of brutal labor camps

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15. Karl Marx 

Karl Marx was also known as the "father of comunism". 

Often recognized as the "father of communism"; believed that communism would replace capitalism, believed in a classless society. (1818-1883)

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16. Joseph Stalin 

 Joseph Stalin was head of "man of steel". 

Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition; "man of steel" (1879-1953)

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17. Kulaks 

Kulaks own a lot of land and animals. 

wealthy farmers

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18. Lenin

Lenin led the October Revolution. 

Founded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship. He led the October Revolution of 1917, in which the Communists seized power in Russia. He then ruled the country until his death in 1924

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19. March on Rome

Many fascists were involved in the March on Rome. 

tens of thousands of fascists swarmed towards Rome. Fearing civil war, king Victor Emmanuel III asked Mussolini to form a government as Prime Minister

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20. Nuremburg Laws 

The Nazi's passed the Nuremburg Laws. 

in 1935, the Nazis passed these laws which deprived Jews of German citizenship and placed several restrictions on them, including: being prohibited from marrying non-Jews, attending or teaching at German schools, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine, or publishing books

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21. Proletariat 

Another name for the working class is Proletariat. 

Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production; the working class

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22. Ruhr Valley 

The Ruhr Valley occurred in 1923. 

in 1923, Germany fell behind in reparations payments so France occupied the coal- rich Ruhr valley

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23. Russification 

To make something more Russian, you apply Russification.

making a nationalities culture more Russian

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24. Socialist Realism 

A type of style for writers and artists is Socialist Realism. 

Stalin required artists and writers to conform to a style in which the goal was to boost socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light

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25. Soviets 

The Soviets were part of the Soviet Union. 

councils of workers and soldiers

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26. Totalitarian state 

Totalitarian state is a form of government. 

Mussolini practiced the first form of government, a one party dictatorship that attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens

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27. Third Reich 

Hitler was in the Third Reich.

Hitler boasted that under his new empire the German master race would dominate Europe for a thousand years

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