551-572

551.Kristallnacht

• An attack on Jewish businesses and synagogues in Germany by the Nazis on November 9-10th 1938.

552.Final Solution

• Hitler’s ultimate plan to exterminate the Jews from Europe. This initiated the holocaust.

553.Corporatism

• The organization of society into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and exercising control over persons and activities within their jurisdiction.

554.“Socialism One Country”

• A theory developed by Stalin to discredit Trotsky’s Permanent Revolution.

• Despite the failure of European revolutions, Russia could still build socialism through control over the commanding heights of the economy and under the political leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

555.Gosplan

• The government organization created by Stalin to run his five year plans. Offices held by high ranking Communists.

556.Five Year Plans

• Plans by Stalin to rapidly industrialize Russia.

• Called for the collectivization of agriculture to sell wheat to fund industrialization.

557.Collectivization

• Failed attempt by Russia and China to make farms into communal, shared plots of land. Ended in massive bloodshed and a loss of productivity. Starvation would also ensue.

558.Kulaks

• The wealthy farmers in Russia. The elite of the lower class whom Stalin had a personal grudge against. They were mostly wiped out during the first five year plan.

559.“Terror Famine”

• The 1932 Ukrainian “famine” caused by their rebellion to the collectivization of agriculture.

• Stalin cut off supplies and food to starve them out.

560.Sergei Kirov

• He was a top commie whom Stalin had killed in his bid for power.

561.Great Purges

• A series of campaigns of political repression under Stalin from 1932-1938.

• He began with political opponents, then the Ukrainians then finally his own military.

562.Bukharin

• A supporter of Stalin who was charged with “treason” and killed by Stalin in 1938 to secure his power.

563.Italy/Ethiopia

• Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935 to show off their power.

• The Ethiopians fought well and kicked the crap out of the Italians, but Italy won anyway.

564.The Rhineland

• The river area on the border of France and Germany.

• It was demilitarized after WWI but Hitler retook it in 1936. The League of Nations did nothing, which gave the Nazis more confidence.

565.Appeasement

• The world leaders and the League of Nations gave Hitler what he wanted in hopes that he would stop.

• It this caused the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, annexation of Czechoslovakia, and the Anschluss of Austria.

• It did not work.

566.Spanish Civil War

• Fight between Fascists and Communists in Spain.

• This destroyed the Popular front in France because they did not take a side.

• The Fascists won due to German aid.

567.Guernica

• A painting by Pablo Picasso depicting with Cubism the German and Italian bombing of Guernica.

568.Anschluss

• The annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.

• The Austrians loved and supported it, and the League of Nations did nothing as usual.

569.Sudetenland

• A German filled, mountainous area of Czechoslovakia that was taken by Hitler with the approval of France and Britain.

• Hitler then took the entire country.

570.Munich Pact

• The treaty that allowed Hitler to take the Sudetenland. It was signed by Britain, Italy, Germany and France.

571.Winston Churchill

• British Prime Minister who replaced Neville Chamberlain at the outset of WWII.

• He also coined the term “Iron Curtain” and after he was dismissed, he spoke out for a unified Europe at universities.

572.Nazi-Soviet Pact

• A treaty of non aggression signed by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

• It was used to give Hitler more time to conquer Europe.

• It was broken with the Nazi Invasion of Russia.

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