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What do we know about WWII? On your own, use the expo marker to record information you already know about WWII on your desk (terms, people, anything) You will have 1 minute

What do we know about WWII? In your pods, compare your terms! Add new ideas if needed! You will have 3 minutes Then, we will put all of our collective terms on butcher paper. Mark off terms that have already been said.

WWII Dictators: Who are the major players?

Research the major dictators Your group is going to research the major dictators during WWII Hideki Tojo, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin USE LEGIT SOURCES! You will verbally present to the class You are researching the following information: What country did they lead? How did they get to power? Any major events that occurred that got them into power or that happened while they were in power? What is their style of dictatorship? (Democracy, communism, socialism, totalitarianism, military, etc.) What were they like in their powerful position? Were they mean? Loved? Hated? Admired? Did they have a special police force? If so what was the name?

Totalitarianism More extreme than just a dictator Secret police Ultimate control over public and private sectors Uses terror and spies amongst citizens No rights, no political rivals, no alternative ideology Govt. controls radio and propaganda

Hideki Tojo What country did he lead? How did he get to power? Any major events that occurred that got him into power or that happened while he was in power? What is his style of government? What was he like in his powerful position? Give examples. Did he have a special police force? If so what was the name?

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 military leader, Hideki Tojo

Benito Mussolini What country did he lead? How did he get to power? Any major events that occurred that got him into power or that happened while he was in power? What is his style of government? What was he like in his powerful position? Give examples. Did he have a special police force? If so what was the name?

Benito Mussolini - Italy Fascist Party 1919 National pride Black Shirts Italian King Emmanuel III March on Rome 1922 Weak, let BM become Prime Minister Mussolini took over everything

Adolf Hitler What country did he lead? How did he get to power? Any major events that occurred that got him into power or that happened while he was in power? What is his style of government? What was he like in his powerful position? Give examples. Did he have a special police force? If so what was the name?

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 (living space) 1933 Chancellor of Germany Economic policies recovered Germany Used Nationalism Der Fuhrer

Joseph Stalin What country did he lead? How did he get to power? Any major events that occurred that got him into power or that happened while he was in power? What is his style of government? What was he like in his powerful position? Give examples. Did he have a special police force? If so what was the name?

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.”

How did Stalin and Mussolini compare with one another?

Be ready for a warm up! Can be in your notes

Matching Military government, led the Rape of Nanjing Adolf Hitler Fascist leader, helped Germany out of the Great Depression Fascist leader, led the March on Rome Communist leader, successor to Lenin Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Joseph Stalin

Other Leaders during WWII Franklin Roosevelt still president of USA USA still in Great Depression court packing - totalitarian? Chamberlain Churchill Prime Minister’s of Britain Chamberlain seen as ineffective leader during war (gives Czechoslovakia to Germany) in 1939 Churchill leads 1940

Appeasement Granting potential enemy’s wishes to avoid conflict France, Britain & U.S. Wanted to avoid second World War Does not work! more power to dictators Led to Anschluss (Austria added to Hitler’s Reich) What are some modern day examples of appeasement?