AP Euro chapter 27 Vocab

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A radical dictatorship that exercises "total claims" over the beliefs and behavior of its citizens by taking control of the economic, social, intellectual, and cultural aspects of society
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A radical dictatorship that exercises "total claims" over the beliefs and behavior of its citizens by taking control of the economic, social, intellectual, and cultural aspects of society
totalitarianism
A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, anti socialism, a dynamic and violent leader, and glorification of war and the military
Fascism
A pseudoscientific doctrine that maintains that the selective breeding of human beings can improve the general characteristics of national population, which helped inspire Nazi ideas about "race and space" and ultimately contributed to the Holocaust
eugenics
A plan launched by Stalin in 1928, and termed the "revolution from above," aimed at modernizing the Soviet Union and creating a new Communist society with new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity
five-year plan
Lenin's 1921 policy to re-establish limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration
New Economic Policy (NEP)
The forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large state-controlled enterprises in the Soviet Union under Stalin
collectivization of agriculture
The better-off peasants who were stripped of land and livestock under Stalin and were generally not permitted to join collective farms; many of them starved or were deported to forced-labor camps for "re-education"
kulaks
Mussolini's private militia that destroyed socialist newspapers, union halls, and Socialist Party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of northern Italy
Black Shirts
A 1929 agreement that recognized the Vatican as an independent state, with Mussolini agreeing to give the church heavy financial support in return for public support from the pope
Lateran Agreement
A movement and political party driven by extreme nationalism and racism, led by Adolf Hitler; its adherents ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 and forced Europe into World War II
National Socialism
An Act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis that gave Hitler absolute doctoral power for four yearsEnabling ActThe British policy toward Germany prior to World War II that aimed at granting Hitler whatever he wanted, including western Czechoslovakia, in order to avoid warappeasementHitler's program based on racial imperialism, which gave preferential treatment to the Nordic peoples; the French, an "inferior" Latin people, occupied a middle position; and Slavs and Jews were treated harshly as "subhumans"New OrderThe systematic effort of the Nazi state to exterminate all European Jews and other groups deemed racially inferior during the Second World WarHolocaust