Mussolini Intro to WW2 Stalin’s Totalitarian State - Lenin had set up a communist gov’t in the _____________________ - He dies in 1924 & Joseph Stalin gains power & ruled as a totalitarian dictator - ____________________________________: a single party controls the gov’t and every aspect of people’s lives. Citizens must obey the gov’t without ____________. ____________________________of the gov’t is severely punished - Examples: Stalin ordered peasants to hand over land to gov’t-run farms. He __________________ political enemies. Fascist Italy - Totalitarian leaders also came to power in ____________& ________________ - These dictators were Fascists - _______________________: political system that is rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism & blind loyalty to the state Communists support = _________________ Fascists support = ________________________ Mussolini - In 1922 Benito Mussolini & his Fascist party seized power in _________________ - Many Italians were annoyed that the Versailles Treaty (ending _______) did NOT grant Italy territories it wanted - Italy’s economy was unstable & there was fear growing of a ___________________________________ - Mussolini outlawed all political parties except his own once he was in power - Controlled the press & banned criticism of the gov’t - Critics were _________________________________ - School children recited, “____________________________________!” Conquering Ethiopia 1930s Mussolini used foreign conquest to distract Italians from economic problems He promised Italians he would restore the “greatness of Rome” & embarked on a program of military aggression __________________________: warlike act by one country against another without just cause Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935 & conquered them (_________________________________________) Nazi Germany - Adolf Hitler brought the National Socialist German Workers’ Party to power - Nazis: ____________________________________________________________________ - Germans resented the treaty of Versailles as it blamed ____________________for WW1 & left them with heavy costs

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