World S2 Unit 6 Flashcard 3 2025

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After Lenin died in 1924, a struggle for leadership began in the __________ and in 1929 Joseph Stalin would emerge as Dictator in the Soviet Union.

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Politburo

Front

Joseph Stalin launched a series of ___________ with the intention of changing Russia from an agricultural to an industrial economy.

Back

5 year plans

Front

What is collectivization in Stalin's communist system?

Back

Private farms were taken over by the central government

Front

A command economy is

Back

When the government is in control of the economy

Front

A Totalitarian State is

Back

A government that has complete control over its citizens' lives

Front

In the early 1920's, _________ established the first European Fascist State in Italy.

Back

Benito Mussolini

Front

This former European power shifted to fascism due to a civil war caused by General Francisco Franco.

Back

Spain

Front

Fascism, in contrast to Socialism, is a movement aimed at

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Mobilizing the middle class (bourgeoisie) and not the working class (proletariat)

Front

Gulags were

Back

prison labor camps used by the communists in the Soviet Union to eliminate their opposition.

Front

Followers of the Fascist Party in Italy were called

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Blackshirts.