1. The Rise of the Dictators
Mr. Riddlebarger
World War II Erupts
US Global Studies 10

2. Europe after World War I
Death of Millions
Destruction
Economy
challenges at end of World War I

3. Problems With Peace
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
France hopes
Italy

4. German Outrage Germany suffered the most economy Humiliation
political upheaval
Serious inflation
Weimar Republic

5. Totalitarian Leaders Arise
New European leaders emerge
Share what in common?

7. Mussolini and Birth of Fascism
Italian Benito Mussolini
Treaty of Versailles
National Fascist Party
Promises

8. Fascism
symbolized unity & authority
Fascism
Extreme nationalism

9. “Anti-Individualistic, the Fascist conception of life
Stresses the importance of the State and accepts
The individual only in so far as his interests coincide
With those of the State.”
-Benito Mussolini & Geovani Gentile,
The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932

10. Il Duce Mussolini suppression terror
Secret Police (“Black Shirts”) and propaganda
Hitler & Stalin
Enrico Prampolini- “mussolini’s black shirt, 15 April 1919
"Italy wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.”

11. Hitler’s Rise To Power
Background
Weimar Republic
Beer Hall Putsch

12. Rise of Hitler & Nazi Party
Mein Kampf
Nazi goals & ideology:
Extreme nationalism
Anti-Semitism
Germans as superior master race, “Aryans”
Prison time

13. Hitler as Chancellor 1933- Nazis Chancellor Fire in Reichstag
Coalition government
Fire in Reichstag
Hindenburg dies

14. Nazi Rise to Power Effects of Depression Promises “the Brown Shirts”
Like Mussolini, Hitler stresses nationalism & devotion to the state.

15. Other Regimes Spain- Francisco Franco In Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin
(Fascism & communism are opposites)

16. Guernica from

17. Japan political & economic conflict Military violently takes control
Nationalist dreams
Invasion of Manchuria in 1931

18. Italians Take Ethiopia
Mussolini orders invasion of Ethiopia in 1935
Bitter history
Ethiopia is unable to resist Italians
Others are unwilling to help
Why?
Another sign of the League’s weakness
“It is collective security. It is the very existence of the League of Nations. It is the confidence that each State (country) is to place in international treaties. …it is international morality at stake.”
Haile Selassie

19. Hitler Takes Action appeasement Defiance of Treaty of Versailles
Re-armament
Britain & French tolerance
1936- Rhineland.
Hitler is emboldened.
appeasement
"If France had then marched into the Rhineland, we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs." - Hitler

20. The Anschluss 1938 Reaction Anschluss
Map:

22. The Sudetenland Plans for Sudetenland Munich Conference Agreement
“peace for our time.”

23. The Appeasement of
Hitler

24. What countries?
Rise of the Dictators