1. Rise of Fascism and Dictators

2. Fascism
Believe the state is more important than the individual citizens
Reaction to the destabilizing forces of WWI

3. Fascism
-totalitarian philosophy of government that glorifies the state and nation and assigns to the state control over every aspect of national life.
-characterized by:
Absolute power of the state – national loyalties supersede all others
Rule by a dictator
Corporatism
Militarism and Imperialism
Extreme nationalism
Superiority of the Nation’s People

4. Fascism
-totalitarian philosophy of government that glorifies the state and nation and assigns to the state control over every aspect of national life.
Opposed
Parliamentary democracy
Liberalism
Socialism
Communism
Labor unions

5. Benito
Mussolini
(Italy)

6. Italy Benito Mussolini, il Duce
Mussolini organized Fascist party
He became prime minister in 1922
Assumed dictatorial control by 1928

7. Adolf
Hitler
(Germany)

8. Germany Adolf Hitler, der Führer
Nazi party, headed by Hitler, opposed the Weimar Republic
Nazi party gained support during depression of the 1930s

9. Hitler appointed chancellor in 1933
Hitler crushed all opposition to the Nazis - establishes the Third Reich
Hitler took over the Rhineland and formed Rome-Berlin Axis in 1936
Hitler annexed Austria in 1938
Hitler was handed Czechoslovakia at the Munich Conference in 1938
Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939

11. M U S O L I N H I T L E R

12. Spain Francisco Franco, el Caudillo
Spanish revolutionaries establish a republic in 1930

13. Civil war between the socialist government and fascist nationalists led by Franco began in 1936
Nationalists won and Franco set up a fascist dictatorship in 1939

14. Prime
Minister
Hideki
Tojo
(Japan)

15. Japan Japanese attacked Manchuria in 1931
Japan began expansion of its Imperial Navy in 1934
Koki Kirota, known militarist, was appointed prime minister in 1936
Japanese invaded northern China in 1937