Adolf Hitler | Joseph Stalin | Politically Political | Terms FTW | Randomizer |
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What is PROPAGANDA?
Posters, speeches, education; used as a means of indoctrinating the people of Germany.
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What are PURGES?
Violence carried out against anyone who disagreed with him; he did this to 90% of his cabinet once.
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What is a CONSTITUENCY?
A political boundary that fits all the people/constituents who will be represented by a politician in that area.
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What is INFLATION?
When the cost of goods/services increases, but the value of money decreases or rises little.
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What is the NEW DEAL?
1930s, Roosevelt USA; plan to create social programs to combat the Great Depression. THAT BOARD DRAWING
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What is the SECRET POLICE?
SS and the Gestapo; functioned as the guards who carried out the wishes of Hitler and his commanders.
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What are SPHERES OF INFLUENCE?
These sat behind the Iron Curtain and were satellite states that were in “balls of control”.
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What is DIRECT DEMOCRACY?
When you have direct say in the political decisions for a given area; like a town hall meeting.
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What is DETENTE?
A French word looking for an easing of tensions or a strained relationship between countries.
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What is UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE?
Movement that secured the political voting rights for women and eventually ALL other groups.
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What is AUTHORITARIAN?
The controlling type of dictatorship that he used, look at the wall.
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What are POLITICAL DISSENTERS?
He eliminated these people because they spoke out against his "political" motives because they disagreed or dissented.
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What is the INDIAN ACT?
1876, Canadian policy to organize schooling for FNMI children and to designate who qualified for any funding (Status/Nonstatus).
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What is BRINKMANSHIP?
Process when countries prepare for what they believe is an inevitable conflict or war.
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What is a LOBBY GROUP?
Associations that will influence public opinion and policy through lobbying and their considerable influence.
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What is NAZI YOUTH PROGRAMS? (Hitler Youth & League of German Maidens)
A difference from Stalin, he used these to indoctrinate the boys and girls of Germany.
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What is EQUALITY?
His collectivist policies tried to bring THIS to the people of the USSR; think economic...
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What is RADICALISM?
A person very revolutionary in their thinking of change politically; not reactionary or moderate.
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What is a BLOCKADE?
Used during the Cuban Missile Crisis; USA ships did this to USSR shipping convoys that blocked trade.
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Who is ROBERT OWEN?
A utopian socialist that believed in giving rights to his workers and changing policy for the benefit of his workers.
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What is SCAPEGOATS?
Jews and Communists; the ones who received extra blame from him and would receive punishment.
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What are 5 YEAR PLANS?
His plans for rapid industrialization; technically turned the USSR into a powerhouse even if the numbers were a bit off.
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What is PUBLIC INTEREST?
An interest that believes in the best interest of the group; sacrificing your own for the good of the group.
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What are LABOUR UNIONS?
Groups created to monitor and lobby for better working conditions and benefits for workers.
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What is a PROXY WAR?
When a war is fought indirectly between larger countries through smaller nations or a smaller conflict.
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