WorksheetsTotalitarianism
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is not true about a totalitarian society?
people have individual freedom
censorship is used
government controls public and private life
police use terror to enforce the will of the government
In a totalitarian society, there is ____ leader(s) that exercises complete control over the nation.
2
3
1
4
Term for a system of government beliefs.
indoctrination
censorship
propaganda
ideology
Which of the following is not a method of totalitarian control?
police terror
indoctrination
propaganda & censorship
persecution of a group (ethnic or religion)
genocide
In a totalitarian state, the purpose of the police it to
spy on citizens
create fear to keep people in line
protect the citizens
crush opposition
protect the rights of the people
To indoctrinate the people, totalitarian governments control the ______ system.
economic
farming
education
religious
industrial
The use of youth groups to instruct people in the government's ideology and develop future leader is an example of
police terror
censorship
propaganda
indoctrination
Term for biased or incomplete information used to sway people to accept a certain belief or action
censorship
gulags
Bolshevik
propaganda
communism
Stalin was the totalitarian leader of
Germany
Soviet Union
Italy
China
North Korea
Censorship restricts a person's freedom of
privacy
speech
religion
travel
A group that is used to place blame on in order to divert it away from the government or the real source of the problem.
scapegoat
kulaks
gulags
terror groups
Where was Joseph Stalin born?
Russia
Germany
Georgia
Ukraine
Who was the totalitarian leader of Germany?
Mao Zedong
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Francois Duvalier
What was Stalin's program for rapid industrial development?
5 Year Plan
Gulags
Private Industrial Development
Communist Manifesto
Read the excerpt from Stalin's 1929 speech on collectivization (gathering of all farm land and resources under government control)
The solution lies in enlarging the agricultural units...and in changing the agricultural base of our national economy....the Socialist way, which is to set up collective farms and state farms which leads to the joining together of the small peasant farms into large collective farms, technically and scientifically equipped, and to the squeezing out of the capitalist elements from agriculture… Now we are able to carry on a determined offensive against the kulaks, to break their resistance, to eliminate them as a class and subsitute for their output the output of the collective farms and state farms.
According to Stalin, what group of people are standing in the way of Stalin's collectivization program?
Kulaks
farmers
factory owners
children
Between 1934 and 1939, the Great Purge was a campaign to eliminate
traditional religious beliefs
food and housing shortages
supporters of the Communist Party
Opposition to Stalin's power
The Great Purge was an example of
indoctrination
propaganda
censorship
police terror
When a leader develops an image of himself to where he is admired, worshiped, idolized and loved by all - it is shaped by fear and propaganda
cult of popularity
cult of personality
religious cult
Indoctrination
A cult of personality depends greatly on
image
wealth
ideology
education
