Totalitarian+Regimes

Aileen Liew __Fascist Italy__ __Nazi Germany__ __Soviet Russia__
 * Fascist party came to power under Mussolini
 * squadristi= armed fascists who attacked political opponents
 * Mussolini believed terrorist tactics would achieve political victory.
 * March on Rome bluff= bluff to frighten the government
 * Parliament passed Acerbo Law= any party winning at least 25% of votes would automatically be given 2/3s of seats in Parliament
 * Fascists won 65% of total votes in 1924
 * Mussolini established a dictatorship
 * press censorship, limited rights
 * OVRA= secret police
 * women encouraged to bear children, not go to work
 * Hitler established dictatorship after President Hindenburg's death.
 * all political parties eliminated except Nazis
 * Himmler placed in control of all regular and secret police forces
 * women were destined to be housewives
 * propoganda aroused hatred towards Jews
 * Nuremberg Laws= excluded Jews from citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and German citizens
 * Kristallnacht= synagouges burned, Jewish businesses destroyed
 * Holocaust concentration camps= Jews shipped to camps where they were either forced to do hard labor or they were gassed to death
 * Lebensraum= Hitler believed that Germany needed more living space, so lands in Eastern Europe must be conquered
 * Stalin came to power after Lenin's death
 * Communist regime
 * purged the old Bolsheviks
 * collectivization= eliminating all independent farms and moving farmers into collective farms
 * collectivization lead to famines, millions died
 * Stalin's Five Year Plan= used to transform Russia from an agricultural country to an industrial country
 * new industrial cities built
 * increased production of industrial goods
 * women entered the workforce
 * those who opposed Stalin's orders were sent to Siberian labor camps, they never returned