Joseph Stalin Totalitarianism

Totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union.

• Nicholas II

• Karl Marx

• Joseph Stalin

• Mao Zedong

A government that has total control over people’s lives is known as

• Autocratic Monarchy

• Communism

• Totalitarianism

• Democracy

Which title best completes this graphic organizer?

• Saddam Hussein and the Persian Gulf War

• Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) and the Defeat of the Manchu Dynasty

• Joseph Stalin and the Rise of a Totalitarian State

• Jawaharlal Nehru and the Modern Industrial State of India

The main purpose of the many purges and public trials that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1930s was to

• force the Jewish people to leave the Soviet Union

• eliminate opposition to Joseph Stalin and his government

• establish a free and independent court system in the Soviet Union

• reform the outdated and inadequate agricultural system

A political system in which the government controls all aspects of life. 

• democracy 

• totalitarianism 

• communism

• imperialism 

Government which controls every aspect of public and private life. 

• Republic

• Totalitarian

• Theocracy

• Democracy

corresponds to Totalitarianism.

• United States of America (Modern)

• Stalin’s Soviet Union

• Ancient Athens

• Louis XIV’s France

corresponds to Totalitarianism.

• United States of America (Modern)

• Stalin’s Soviet Union

• Ancient Athens

• Louis XIV’s France

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Overall... which situation is characteristic of a totalitarian society?

• The freedom of speech, press, and religion are denied

• Artists and musicians experience artistic freedom

• Individualism is encouraged

• Judges and courts are independent of government control