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After today’s lesson, you will: Describe the growth of totalitarian states in the 1930s Compare and contrast the totalitarian states of the mid-20 th Century Outline the issues of appeasement

During the 1920s, Totalitarian governments were on the rise Massive economic turmoil Civil unrest and rioting within countries Losses suffered in the First World War Desires to rebuild national greatness

Single-party dictatorship Strong, charismatic leader State control over the economy Use of police, spies, and terror to maintain control Government control of media Use of schools and youth groups to spread propaganda

 Soviet Union (Stalin)  Dominated by the Communists  Italy (Mussolini)  Dominated by the Fascists  Germany (Hitler)  Dominated by the Nazi Party  Japan (Military Leaders)

 Nazism built on a strong sense of German destiny  All Germans should live in one country ▪ Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer ▪ One People, One Country, One Leader  Germans (Aryans) a “Master Race”, destined to rule  To thrive, Germans needed living space (Lebensraum)

 Attempted abortive putsch in 1923  Armed revolt did not work  Ideas outlined in Mein Kampf (My Struggle) ▪ Use democratic means to suborn democracy  Played on desperation of the German people  “stabbed In the back by traitors”  Promised economic stability  Promised greatness

 Use of simple arguments and nationalist imagery  Continued to gain seats in the Reichstag  By 1932, the Nazis were the largest party in the Reichstag  Nazis demanded Hitler be appointed Chancellor (Head of Government)

 Reichstag fire, February 1933  Used as an excuse to take power  Banned left-wing political parties  Passed the Enabling Act, giving the cabinet legislative power  Assumed control

 Slowly overturned Versailles Reoccupied the Rhineland (1936) Rebuilt German army Anschluss (unification) of Austria (1938) Turned sights of the Sudetenland

 Largely German district in Czechoslovakia  Germany demanded the region  Czechoslovakia refused  Conference held in Munich in 1938  Britain and France agreed to the transfer  “Peace in our time”

 March 1939: Germany annexed the rest of the country  August 1939: Nonaggression Pact with USSR  Secret agreement to divide Poland  Shocked the world  September 1, 1939: Germany invasion of Poland

 In a short, 2-3 sentence response, summarize what you learned in class today.