Chat with AIExam 27: Democracy Under Siege
Why were the reasons behind and effect of Stalin's Great Purges?
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VerifiedStalin initiated the Great Purges after a sequence of eliminating all resistance to his power and economic programs, beginning with collectivization and the five-year plans. Subsequently, beginning in 1936, Stalin sought to subdue his enemies within other realms of Soviet life, and utilized the NKVD to remove any opposition. While members of the Politburo were more in favor of slowing down the pace of his industrialization and collectivization, and ease up on the Russian population, Stalin turned his use of intimidation to his now perceived political enemies, beginning with the oldest members of the Bolshevik party, whom he suspected of being more loyal to Lenin and Trotsky than him. He followed by eliminating members of the Politburo, prominent military experts, technical specialists, and then members of the NKVD who had carried out his orders. Some 70 percent of the Central Committee was removed, and by 1939 less than 2 percent of the original members of the 1934 Party Congress still survived. The results were that he created a new core of devoted followers, but also created an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia through the deliberate infliction of terror and executions.
The Vichy government, which collaborated with Germany both politically and in the Holocaust, was in ______________.
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Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Mein Kampf
(75) VerifiedBook written by Hitler in 1925 in which he formulated his ideas of racial purity and his goal of exterminating the Jews
Who was not considered undesirable under Hitler's racial profiling?
(74) Collaboration under Nazi direction was established in all of the following countries except ______________.
(81) What was the effect of the five-year plans and collectivization on the Soviet Union?
(77) Women's participation in the war (on both sides) was found in all of the following areas except ______________.
(90) The Munich Conference in 1938 allowed Hitler to take control of which area?
(79) Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
(75) Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Operation Barbarossa
(84) Francisco Franco fought for the pro-democracy forces in the Spanish Civil War.
(77) The focus of the first five-year plan was collectivized agriculture.
(78) How did Churchill convince Americans to assist Britian against Germany in World War II?
(79) Operation Overlord brought millions of troops across the English Channel to occupied France.
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