Rise of DictatorsWhy did these

totalitarian regimes

gain power after World War I?

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Discovering History: 20th-Century Biographies: WWII Political Leaders

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Big Idea: Economic problems after WWI cause Totalitarian leaders to gain power and ultimately will lead to WWII!

Totalitarian governments control their citizens & retain control with the

following methods:• 1. single leader, demand blind obedience

• 2. control the economy

• 3. police spies & terror tactics

• 4.control the media (use propaganda to indoctrinate)

• 5. use school to spread ideology to children

• 6. censorship of art, books, intellectuals with dissenting opinions

Rise of Totalitarian Regimes

A. In a Totalitarian country, individual rights are not viewed as important as the needs of the nation

Totalitarianism

Communist Dictatorship

(USSR)

Fascist Dictatorship

(Germany, Italy)

Military Dictatorship

(Japan)

Fascism: military

government with based on

racism & nationalism with strong

support from the business communityOpposition is suppressed.. violent

Government in which there are no social classes, to create equality and government controls all aspects of production.

Mussolini – Il Duce (eel DOO chay)* First Fascist state

• Recognized Catholicism as the state religion

• Role of Women- have children and raise them to love the state

• Make government work efficiently (get trains running on time)

• Save Roman ruins, put money to salvage Coliseum

• Bring back glory of Roman Empire

Control:• Black shirts- child youth organizations to

support fascist ideology.

• OVRA (Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism) Secret Police force

* Propaganda “Mussolini is always right”

Adolf Hitler – Fuhrer (FYUR uhr) leader

• Chancellor • Policy of Anti-Semitism• National Socialist German Workers’ Party

or Nazi • Third Reich• Role of women- have

children and raise them to love the state

Control:• Schutzstaffeln or SS• Gestapo- secret police• Get rid of political parties

“friends”

Joseph Stalin “man of steel”

• Five-year plan: to industrialize• Collectivization policy• Role of women- Promoted

equal rights, divorce & work

Control:

Great Purge- get rid of opponents

Cheka- secret police

Gulag- work camps

General Hideki Tojo...slowly takes power away from Emperor Hirohito

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•Industrialization• Expansion/imperialism

•Invades Manchuria, China, Korea•Wants Southeast Asia•Wants Siberia (Russia)- makes a pact with Germany

View of women-

Method of Control:•Drop pamphlets on countries telling them to surrender•Purge of western ideas“Imperial Rule Assistance Association”

Want

Process:• make a propaganda poster & a Wanted

poster

it should be persuasive... if I were a citizen of the country it should make me feel my

leader is good/competent/strong etc..... your persuasion may use pride, fear, terror, compassion, etc..