US HistoryChapter 16

TotalitarianismWorld War II

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Benito Mussolini

Also known as Il Duce

Fascism in Europe

• Loyalty to state• Single leader

(militaristic)• Extreme nationalism• Anti-communist

Adolph Hitler

Soldier in WWI, he organized the Nazi Party in Germany

Communism

• Extreme Nationalism• Revolution by the

working class.• State ownership of all

property

Mein Kampf• Hitler wrote a book

while in prison (means my struggle in English)

• He stated that Aryans were the “master race” (blonde hair, blue eyes)

• Jews, Slavs, Gypsies were inferior

• Promised to conquer Eastern Europe

Shutzstaffel

• Also known as the SS, this group was responsible for eliminating any of Hitler’s enemies

• They also ran the concentration and death camps

Munich Conference

• Neville Chamberlain from Great Britain claims that he has Hitler’s signature guaranteeing that “there will be peace in our time!”

• Germany invades Poland within a year

Munich Conference

• Appeasement chosen again, Hitler given permission to take Sudetenland

Kristallnacht

• “Night of the Broken Glass”

• Beginning of the terror against the Jews

• Attacked in their homes and businesses

• Thousands arrested or killed on this night

Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht