World War and Cold War Questions

Identify and Explain:

The Enabling Act
The New Economic Policy
Kulaks

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This gave Hitler dictatorial power. He used the Reichstag Fire to blame the communists and seek total power. This would cause the creation of a fascist country with indoctrination and complete economic control.

Lenin’s policy that said foreign capitalists could come to the Soviet Union. It created anger with the hard-line communists and helped Stalin come to power.

These were the peasants that did not support collectivization because they were wealthier than other peasants. It came to mean anyone who disobeyed or rebelled against Stalin’s power. Sta-lin had them purged. Other communists also supported his views because they viewed the Ku-laks as dangerous and threatening.

What was the Brezhnev doctrine, and how and where was it applied in 1968?

What was de Gaulle’s response to the French student’s strike in 1968? What effect did the strike have on the political establishment under de Gaulle?

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It was applied in Czechoslovakia when the Czechoslovaks were trying to rebel. Brezhnev de-clared that the Soviet Union has the right to support other Communist regimes that are threat-ened. It was part of re-Stalinization that Khrushchev had dismissed in his de-Stalinization. The Soviets moved tanks and soldiers into Prague.

He sympathized with the students and provided education reform so that more students could be educated. The strike liberalized de Gaulle’s government, as it eventually grew to encompass the workers. De Gaulle realized that he had to provide reforms so that the French Fifth Republic could continue. Eventually he had the military restore order.