Rise of the Totalitarian State Rise of Dictators

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Rise of the Totalitarian StateRise of Dictators
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America is looking for a new leader. Examine
candidate A B for the what you think our
country needs. Which candidate would you choose?
Write your answer with a brief reason why. Turn
it into the box and start working on your group
work task.
Candidate B
Candidate A

• Make us great again
• Our present leadership is indecisive, we need a
  strong, effective leader
• Rebuild our army to protect us
• Regain land lost over the years
• Restore our economic stability
• Put health of our country about all else

• No simple or quick solution to our problem
• Put more people back to work but economic
  recovery will be slow
• Provide for the poor, elderly, and sick
• Avoid reckless military spending
• Act responsibly to protect our democracy
• Be a good country and honor our debts we owe

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The Great Depression 1929-1941
London in 1930
Paris in 1930

• Germany made 1st reparation payment 1921 but by
  the next year said it could not afford to pay any
  more
• France invaded Industrial Ruhr region of Germany
  to take wealth from mines factories
• Germany workers go on strike German govt
  prints more to pay the strikers

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What is Fascism?

• Strong Nationalism
• Destroy the individual push for common
  community (extreme national racial heritage)
• Denied Civil Liberties
• Strong leader who represents desires dreams
  of nation
• IL Duce Italy
• Fuhrer - Germany
• Hated Modern Art, rights for women, and despised
  religious factions
• Used Censorship of media
• Created unity through
• Special Salutes
• Military Emblems, Parades, Rallies
• Absolute Power
• Elite Military Group

From Latin meaning bundle of sticks Romans
carried as a symbol of authority and community
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Benito Mussolini
Country Italy Date in Power 1922 Political
Party National Fascist Party Type of
Government Fascist
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Control Policies

• Secret Police (OVRA)
• Italy was upset over lack of land gain after WWI
  wanted a strong leader
• Brutal Beating by Black Shirts
• Propaganda
• Censorship of the media
• Boys/girls educated on Fascist loyalty
• Regain Roman greatness
• Gained support (factory landowner) by defeating
  extremist ending worker strikes

• Supported Catholic Church
• Extreme Nationalism (Fascism)
• Anti-Socialism
• Anti Communism

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Benito Mussolini
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Mussolini his Black Shirt officers
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Joseph Stalin
Country USSR Date in Power 1929 Political
Party Communist Party Type of Government
Communist
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Control Policies

• 5 year plans for industries
• Collectivization of farms (all farms put under
  govt control)
• Any peasant who didnt let his farm be collected
  was killed
• Heavy industries of steel iron promoted
• By 1930 Soviet Union emerged as a major
  industrial power

• Purge forcefully remove of enemies opponents
• Secret Police
• Prison/labor camps
• State run media
• Used show trial to torture opponents into
  confessing to crimes

It may be never known how many people Stalin had
killed but the known figure stands at 10 million
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Gulag Prison/Labor Camp
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Bellwork 4

• Complete the review question 11- 20 in your Red
  Workbook on pgs 241-243
• You can use your chart on the dictator Great
  Depression notes.

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Joseph Stalin
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Adolf Hitler
Country Germany Date in Power 1933 Political
Party National Socialist German Workers Party
(NSDAP or Nazi) Type of Government Fascist
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Control Policies

• Rearmament
• Public works projects
• Racism (Anti-Semitism)
• Extreme Nationalism (fascism)
• Enabling Act ignore Constitution
• Mass Demonstration
• Hitler Youth
• Censorship book burnings
• Women nurse, social workers or mothers

• SS personal military
• Police Force -Gestapo
• Propaganda
• State run media
• Terror Repression
• Racial Laws (Nuremberg Laws)
• Concentration Death Camps

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Adolph Hitler
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Emperor Hirohito
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Japan

• Tojo ran nation, but Hirohito was figurehead or
  leader without any real power.
• Invaded Manchuria
• Invaded China
• Set out to build huge Japanese empire in Asia
• Japan suffered during the depression from lack of
  natural resources

• Date in Power 1926
• Political Party Military
• Type of Government Militarism, uses military to
  achieve national goals

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Japan Invades China
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Hideki Tojo True Leader of Japan