dictators turn to totalitarianism. totalitarianism more extreme than just a dictator secret police...
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Joseph Stalin – Soviet Union Post Lenin Collective farms 10 million deaths Great Terror Purge of traitors in Communist party (killed or labor camps) “There are no bad collective farms under communism, there are only bad managers.”TRANSCRIPT
Dictators Turn to Totalitarianism
TotalitarianismMore extreme than just a dictatorSecret policeUltimate controlUses terror and spies amongst citizensNo rights, no political rivals, no alternative ideologyGovt. controls radio and propaganda
Why now?
Joseph Stalin – Soviet Union
Post Lenin
Collective farms 10 million deaths
Great Terror 1936-38 Purge of traitors in Communist party (killed or labor camps)
“There are no bad collective farms under communism, there are only bad managers.”
Benito Mussolini - ItalyFascist Party 1919
National pride Black Shirts Anti socialist, anti communist
Italian King Emmanuel III March on Rome 1922 Weak, let BM become Prime Minister
Mussolini aka I’l Duce Took over everything
How did Stalin and Mussolini compare with one another?
Adolf Hitler - Germany Failed at art WWI veteran
Leader of National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party) 1921 Rebelled Mein Kampf in jail
Problems with Germany Against communist and Jewish Lebensraum
1933 Chancellor of Germany Economic policies recovered Germany
Der Fuhrer
Militarists Gain Control of Japan Great Depression Military takeover
Wanted expansion throughout Asia Natural resources and markets Manchuria Rape of Nanjing
No dictator Dictatorship-like military
Appeasement Granting potential enemy’s wishes to avoid conflict
France, Britain & U.S. Wanted to avoid second World War Soviets seen as real threat
Didn’t work more power to dictators
Led to Anschluss (Austria added to Hitler’s Reich)