HISTORY 102 FINAL EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Radical dictatorships which used violent political repression and intense propaganda to gain
complete power and made unprecedented "total claims" on the beliefs and behavior of their
citizens - ANS totalitarianism
After the Russian Civil War, had control over Russia - ANS V. I. Lenin
The program started by Lenin and the Bolsheviks that was essentially state capitalism. The state
controlled major industries, but individuals farmed their own land. - ANS New Economic
Policy or NEP
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - ANS USSR
Born Losep Jughashvill, was Secretary of the Politburo. A brilliant strategist. He isolated his
opposition, force Trotsky out of the party, and took over Russia - ANS Joseph Stalin
Planned the Bolshevik take over after Lenin died, but lost to Stalin - ANS Leon Trotsky
The executive committee and chief policy making body of the USSR Communist Party -
ANS Politburo
Joseph Stalin faces down capitalist enemies in this Soviet propaganda poster of the 1930's -
ANS Five year Plans
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, Peasants were forced to abandon their farms and work on "collective farms" designed to
increase productivity. No incentive to work, famine resulted in as many as 10 million peasant
deaths - ANS Collectivization
Mass Repression; eliminated enemies. 40,000 members of the military arrested with 10,000
shot. As many as 8 million arrested; many sent to Siberian labor camps. Purged top party
officials, government officials, diplomats, Industrial managers, and intellectuals. - ANS The
Great Terror
700,000 dead; monumental debt; divided between an industrial North and an Agrarian South;
inflation, unemployment, and strikes - ANS Fascism in Italy after World War 2
Son of a socialist blacksmith and a school teacher, fought in World War 1, extremely radical -
ANS Benito Mussolini
A government system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition
and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive
nationalism and often racism. - ANS Fascism
means group or band: organized to drum up support for the war; young, idealist, fanatical
nationalist, after the war it was the base of Mussolini's Fascist movement. Drafted by Mussolini;
included universal suffrage, 8-hour workday, and tax on inheritance. - ANS The Fascist
Platform
Private militia with the fascist party; increasingly violent against other political parties. In 1922,
armed fascist under Mussolini marched on Rome. Forces King Victor Emmanuel III to appoint
him as Prime Minister - ANS Black Shirts
"The Leader" within 4 years one-party dictatorship; controlled the police, muzzled the press,
and censored academia. - ANS Il Duce
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Radical dictatorships which used violent political repression and intense propaganda to gain
complete power and made unprecedented "total claims" on the beliefs and behavior of their
citizens - ANS totalitarianism
After the Russian Civil War, had control over Russia - ANS V. I. Lenin
The program started by Lenin and the Bolsheviks that was essentially state capitalism. The state
controlled major industries, but individuals farmed their own land. - ANS New Economic
Policy or NEP
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - ANS USSR
Born Losep Jughashvill, was Secretary of the Politburo. A brilliant strategist. He isolated his
opposition, force Trotsky out of the party, and took over Russia - ANS Joseph Stalin
Planned the Bolshevik take over after Lenin died, but lost to Stalin - ANS Leon Trotsky
The executive committee and chief policy making body of the USSR Communist Party -
ANS Politburo
Joseph Stalin faces down capitalist enemies in this Soviet propaganda poster of the 1930's -
ANS Five year Plans
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, Peasants were forced to abandon their farms and work on "collective farms" designed to
increase productivity. No incentive to work, famine resulted in as many as 10 million peasant
deaths - ANS Collectivization
Mass Repression; eliminated enemies. 40,000 members of the military arrested with 10,000
shot. As many as 8 million arrested; many sent to Siberian labor camps. Purged top party
officials, government officials, diplomats, Industrial managers, and intellectuals. - ANS The
Great Terror
700,000 dead; monumental debt; divided between an industrial North and an Agrarian South;
inflation, unemployment, and strikes - ANS Fascism in Italy after World War 2
Son of a socialist blacksmith and a school teacher, fought in World War 1, extremely radical -
ANS Benito Mussolini
A government system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition
and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive
nationalism and often racism. - ANS Fascism
means group or band: organized to drum up support for the war; young, idealist, fanatical
nationalist, after the war it was the base of Mussolini's Fascist movement. Drafted by Mussolini;
included universal suffrage, 8-hour workday, and tax on inheritance. - ANS The Fascist
Platform
Private militia with the fascist party; increasingly violent against other political parties. In 1922,
armed fascist under Mussolini marched on Rome. Forces King Victor Emmanuel III to appoint
him as Prime Minister - ANS Black Shirts
"The Leader" within 4 years one-party dictatorship; controlled the police, muzzled the press,
and censored academia. - ANS Il Duce
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