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Totalitarian Leaders
Mussolini:
Country/Year to Power: Italy 1922-1945Political Party: Fascist Came to Power: March on Rome-demanded to
be named Prime Minister by King Victor Emmanuel
Nickname: Il DuceSecret Police: Black Shirts
Mussolini:
Strategies used to stay in Power: • Strengthened the military• Invaded Ethiopia to show power• Partnered with Hitler • Used propaganda and censorship
Stalin:
Country/Year to Power: USSR 1928-1953Political Party: CommunistCame to Power: Lenin died. Stalin named the
successor after having Trotsky exiled to Mexico and later executed
Nickname: Man of Steel Secret Police: Checka
Stalin:
Strategies used to stay in Power: • 5 Year Plans– Increased industry– Improved farming and transportation
• Used propaganda and censorship• Created Collectives (large farms) and the
Kulaks (wealthy farmers) resisted• The Great Purge- killing of political opponents
Hitler:
Country/Year to Power: Germany 1933-1945Political Party: Nazi Came to Power: Elected Chancellor of the
Weimar Republic-within a year names himself dictator. Creates the Nazi Party.
Nickname: Der Fuher Secret Police: Gestapo/SS Storm Troopers
Hitler
Strategies used to stay in Power: • Anti-Semitism (“against the Jew”)– Nuremburg Laws– Hitler Youth– Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”)
• Mein Kampf (“my struggles”)-manifesto • Final Solution- exterminate Jews from Europe
(Holocaust)