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The Age of Totalitarianism Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Totali­tar­ianism (Russia)

Totali­tarian Dictat­orship
A political system in which the government recognized no limits on its authority and in which the government attempted with varying degrees of success, to regulate every one party systems in which an individual leader wielded economic power and acted in accordance with a guiding ideology.
Name 3 totali­tar­ianism examples?
Russia, Italy, and Germany
What is Russia known at this time?
The Soviet Union or Unions of SOviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
What did the Bolshevek do in 1922
Reorga­nized territ­ories and renamed the territ­ories
Totali­tar­ianism came to Russia
in 1930 with Joseph Stalin
Josef Stalin
Became in power after Valdimir Lenin died in 1924 sick in 1922 after strokes
What was the power struggle before Stalin took over?
Leanon Trotsky, Grigori Znoviet, Lev Kamernev, Nikolai Bukharian, and Josef Stalin
Which one played a role in October war?
Trosky played a signif­icant role he was the Right hand man of Lenin
People undere­sti­mated Stalin and he took power
took power in 1928-1­929ish and remained in control until 1953
Who was Stalin?
He was a communist or Markist
What kind of leader was he?
tortured people, jailed people for crimes even if they didn't commit them. Russia went into a political repres­sion.
If people competed for power
they were killed or arrested people were arrested Bukharian
Tortsky
Exiled from Italy in 1928 ended up in Mexico and critized Stalin from afar. Stalin sent an assassin to kill Trotsky
Stalins Revolution
Oversaw a transf­orm­ation of the USSR. Ruissia changed from a peasant country to a huge industrial powering 1939 they were 3rd

Totali­tar­ianism Italy

According to Dr. Dehart who was the first Totali­tar­ianism
Italy
Who was the leader
Benito Mussolini. October 1922 Italy prime minister
What party did he belong to?
Italian Fascist Party
Who gave him power?
The king of Italy
Why did he give him power?
Because he knew that it only option was Mussolini. Because his other option was Italian Communist Party and he knew they would probably kill him.
Mussolini had allowed power as long as...
He destroyed communism
Mussolini used the term
Totali­tar­ianism
What happened to him?
He was murdered by his own people in 1945
Why was he dismissed?
He led Italy to world war 2 and in July 1943 he was dismissed as prime minister and was sent to prison to escape